Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30
LAA @ CHC
Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
Umpire Grade
96.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CHC
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Alex Bregman vs Shaun Anderson - 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Dansby Swanson vs Ryan Johnson - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Alex Bregman vs Ryan Johnson
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.