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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-25

CIN @ SF

Home plate: Brennan Miller

An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CIN
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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: Jung Hoo Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.131 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Turner Hill vs Brady Singer
  2. 2+0.137 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Eugenio Suárez vs Sam Hentges
  3. 3+0.133 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Elly De La Cruz vs Anthony Molina

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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