Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-26
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, BAL
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Laz Diaz called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Victor Caratini vs Trevor Rogers - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Josh Bell vs Trevor Rogers - 3-0.23▲8 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan Jeffers vs Tyler Wells
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Matt Wallner — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.