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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-28

CWS @ MIN

Home plate: Mike Estabrook

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CWS
7
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Ryan Jeffers — 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 strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Miguel Vargas vs Dean Kremer
  2. 2-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Ryan Jeffers vs Grant Taylor
  3. 3+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Brooks Lee vs Luis Castillo

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Miguel Vargas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Miguel Vargas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Sam Antonacci — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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