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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03

STL @ DET

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, DET
0
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Iván Herrera vs Framber Valdez
  2. 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Michael McGreevy
  3. 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Riley Greene vs Michael McGreevy

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.