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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-21

PIT @ LAD

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“This one went to video review more than most.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, PIT
6
ABS Overturns
of 11 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 205 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 186 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: Spencer Horwitz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tommy Edman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Shohei Ohtani — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Teoscar Hernández — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).10Challenge 11: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).11
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Andy Pages vs Bubba Chandler
  2. 2+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Tucker vs Bubba Chandler
  3. 3+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Andy Pages vs Bubba Chandler

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

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

  1. 1Spencer Horwitz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Tommy Edman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  8. 8Shohei Ohtani — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  10. 10Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  11. 11Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 11 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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