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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

WSH @ ATH

Home plate: Jacob Metz

“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, WSH
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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: Andrés Chaparro — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: CJ Abrams — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Shea Langeliers — 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+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Andrés Chaparro vs Jacob Lopez
  2. 2+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Harry Ford vs Jacob Lopez
  3. 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Tyler Soderstrom vs Foster Griffin

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. 1Andrés Chaparro — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3CJ Abrams — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.