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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-31

COL @ TOR

Home plate: Laz Diaz

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, TOR
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Laz Diaz called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Kazuma Okamoto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Kyle Karros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲2 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Kyle Karros vs Max Scherzer
  2. 2+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Brenton Doyle vs Max Scherzer
  3. 3+0.10▲8 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Edouard Julien vs Braydon Fisher

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Kazuma Okamoto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Kyle Karros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.