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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-13

PIT @ MIA

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, PIT
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Jakob Marsee — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Leo Jiménez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Nick Gonzales — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Spencer Horwitz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Owen Caissie vs Braxton Ashcraft
  2. 2-0.23▼2 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Leo Jiménez vs Braxton Ashcraft
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Esmerlyn Valdez vs Javier Sanoja

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Jakob Marsee — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Leo Jiménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Nick Gonzales — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Spencer Horwitz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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