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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01

COL @ TOR

Home plate: Brian O'Nora

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
1.4
Run Favor
runs, TOR
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Brian O'Nora called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ernie Clement — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jesús Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    George Springer vs Kyle Freeland
  2. 2+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    George Springer vs Kyle Freeland
  3. 3+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jesús Sánchez vs Brennan Bernardino

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

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

  1. 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ernie Clement — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Jesús Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.