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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29

ATH @ TOR

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, ATH
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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: Nick Kurtz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Darell Hernaiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Tyler Heineman — 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. 1-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Daulton Varsho vs Luis Morales
  2. 2-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Darell Hernaiz vs Braydon Fisher
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Shea Langeliers vs Eric Lauer

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. 1Nick Kurtz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Darell Hernaiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Tyler Heineman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.