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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-21

CIN @ AZ

Home plate: Dan Bellino

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

D
Umpire Grade
88.8% accurate
2.3
Run Favor
runs, AZ
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 166 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: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Dane Myers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Tim Tawa vs Pierce Johnson
  2. 2-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Dane Myers vs Justin Martinez
  3. 3+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    JJ Bleday vs Dennis Santana

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Dane Myers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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