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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-08

BAL @ TEX

Home plate: James Hoye

“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TEX
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Tyler O'Neill — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Ezequiel Duran vs Rico Garcia
  2. 2-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Leody Taveras vs Jacob deGrom
  3. 3+0.10▼7 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Evan Carter vs Rico Garcia

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

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

  1. 1Tyler O'Neill — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Colton Cowser — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Wyatt Langford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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