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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-09

TOR @ PHI

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, TOR
6
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 198 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Davis Schneider — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Ernie Clement — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Myles Straw — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Bryce Harper — 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. 1-0.30▲5 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Davis Schneider vs Jesús Luzardo
  2. 2-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Andrés Giménez vs Jesús Luzardo
  3. 3-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Bryson Stott vs Shane Bieber

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

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Davis Schneider — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  8. 8Myles Straw — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Bryce Harper — 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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