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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

LAD @ NYY

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, NYY
7
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Andy Pages — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Eliezer Alfonzo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Eliezer Alfonzo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Cody Bellinger vs Jack Dreyer
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Kyle Hurt
  3. 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Edgardo Henriquez

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

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Eliezer Alfonzo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Eliezer Alfonzo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.