Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-12
CIN @ MIL
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIL
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 185 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 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+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jackson Chourio vs Brady Singer - 2+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Brice Turang vs Brady Singer - 3-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Juan Brito vs DL Hall
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.