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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-13

CLE @ DET

Home plate: James Hoye

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

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Gleyber Torres — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.193 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Gleyber Torres vs Parker Messick
  2. 2+0.133 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Eduardo Valencia vs Parker Messick
  3. 3+0.134 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Nathaniel Lowe vs Keider Montero

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Gleyber Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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