Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29
WSH @ CHC
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, WSH
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Nasim Nuñez vs Phil Maton - 2+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ian Happ vs PJ Poulin - 3+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Daylen Lile vs Shota Imanaga
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.