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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-28

CIN @ CHC

Home plate: Bill Miller

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CIN
8
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 197 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 182 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: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Alex Bregman vs Brock Burke
  2. 2-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    JJ Bleday vs Aaron Civale
  3. 3+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Tyler Stephenson vs David Peterson

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 8 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Seiya Suzuki — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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