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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-13

CWS @ STL

Home plate: Mike Estabrook

A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, STL
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Ramón Urías — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.395 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Leo Bernal vs David Sandlin
  2. 2-0.139 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Andrew Benintendi vs George Soriano
  3. 3-0.136 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged
    Kyle Teel vs Michael McGreevy

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

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

  1. 1Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Ramón Urías — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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

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