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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-28

MIN @ BAL

Home plate: Brian O'Nora

“The zone stretched its legs.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, BAL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Brian O'Nora called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Samuel Basallo vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Kody Clemens vs Kyle Bradish
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Royce Lewis vs Anthony Nunez

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Kody Clemens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.