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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-12

SEA @ NYY

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, SEA
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Josh Naylor — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brendan Donovan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Taylor Ward vs Will Warren
  2. 2-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Ryan McMahon vs Bryce Miller
  3. 3-0.09▲3 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Cole Young vs Will Warren

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

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

  1. 1Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Brendan Donovan — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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