Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-02
SD @ CIN
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CIN
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 157 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Samad Taylor vs Tejay Antone - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Ty France vs Brandon Williamson - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dane Myers vs Casey Mize
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ethan Salas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Hays — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.