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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-13

CIN @ MIL

Home plate: Doug Eddings

Corner-to-corner and then some.

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIL
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.694 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged
    JJ Bleday vs Robert Gasser
  2. 2-0.306 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Gary Sánchez vs Brandon Williamson
  3. 3+0.206 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Gary Sánchez vs Brandon Williamson

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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