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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-27

LAD @ ATL

Home plate: Chris Segal

A steady night's work behind the plate.

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, LAD
0
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 106 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 99 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: Miguel Rojas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.194 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Michael Harris II vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  2. 2+0.135 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Shohei Ohtani vs Chris Sale
  3. 3-0.135 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Mike Yastrzemski vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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

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