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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-18

CWS @ CHC

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Erick Fedde
  2. 2-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Ian Happ vs Trevor Richards
  3. 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Braden Montgomery vs Kevin Gausman

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Seiya Suzuki — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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