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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-12

CLE @ MIN

Home plate: James Hoye

“The zone kept its promises.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CLE
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Martin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: José Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Austin Martin vs Joey Cantillo
  2. 2-0.23▼2 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Kaelen Culpepper vs Daniel Espino
  3. 3-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Jo Adell vs Connor Prielipp

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6José Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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