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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-24

CIN @ SF

Home plate: Chris Conroy

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CIN
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 137 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: Drew Cavanaugh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Cavanaugh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Cavanaugh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Dylan Smith — 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+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Eugenio Suárez vs Ryan Walker
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Matt McLain vs Carson Whisenhunt
  3. 3+0.09▼2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Rafael Devers vs Chase Burns

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

  1. 1Drew Cavanaugh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Cavanaugh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Dylan Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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