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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.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.2
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 135 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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Bryan Reynolds vs Abner Uribe
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Esmerlyn Valdez vs Logan Henderson

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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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