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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-19

WSH @ STL

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, STL
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 199 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 186 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: James Wood — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: José Tena — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: José Fermín — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Jordan Walker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Leo Bernal — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    José Tena vs George Soriano
  2. 2-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Nasim Nuñez vs Michael McGreevy
  3. 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Brady House vs Brycen Mautz

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5José Tena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6José Fermín — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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