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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-24

TEX @ CWS

Home plate: Chris Guccione

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Jake Burger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — 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 strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Jake Burger vs José Urquidy
  2. 2+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Brandon Nimmo vs Tyler Schweitzer
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Wyatt Langford vs José Urquidy

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

  1. 1Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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

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