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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-04

PIT @ MIL

Home plate: James Hoye

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, PIT
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 147 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: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Esmerlyn Valdez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Christian Yelich vs Jared Jones
  2. 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Nick Gonzales vs Logan Henderson
  3. 3-0.10▼7 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Andrew Vaughn vs Yohan Ramírez

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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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