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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-13

CIN @ CWS

Home plate: Alan Porter

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CIN
7
ABS Overturns
of 10 reviewed

What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 196 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9Challenge 10: Braden Montgomery — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).10
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Matt McLain vs Davis Martin
  2. 2+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs Andrew Abbott
  3. 3+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Sal Stewart vs Trevor Richards

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

10 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  10. 10Braden Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 10 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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