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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-31

SD @ CIN

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SD
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Xander Bogaerts — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Xander Bogaerts — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Edwin Arroyo vs Wandy Peralta
  2. 2+0.21▲7 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jake Cronenworth vs Pierce Johnson
  3. 3-0.13▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Luis Campusano vs Brady Singer

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

  1. 1Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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