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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-01

CWS @ TB

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, TB
5
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 123 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: Taylor Walls — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Ben Williamson vs Noah Schultz
  2. 2+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Victor Mesa Jr. vs Noah Schultz
  3. 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Colson Montgomery vs Drew Rasmussen

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

9 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Sam Antonacci — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  9. 9Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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