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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

SEA @ DET

Home plate: Chris Segal

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, DET
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Wenceel Pérez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jhonny Pereda — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Kerry Carpenter vs Bryce Miller
  2. 2-0.30▲8 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Luke Raley vs Ty Madden
  3. 3-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Gleyber Torres vs Bryce Miller

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Wenceel Pérez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.