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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

LAA @ TEX

Home plate: Bill Miller

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, LAA
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Ezequiel Duran vs Brent Suter
  2. 2-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Ezequiel Duran vs Brent Suter
  3. 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Denzer Guzman vs Nathan Eovaldi

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.