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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-01

MIA @ NYM

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, MIA
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Jakob Marsee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Griffin Conine — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Javier Sanoja vs Zac Thornton
  2. 2-0.23▼3 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Francisco Lindor vs Tyler Phillips
  3. 3+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Javier Sanoja vs Jonathan Pintaro

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Griffin Conine — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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