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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03

TB @ MIN

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”

B-
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, MIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 172 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Cedric Mullins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Trevor Larnach — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jonathan Aranda — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    James Outman vs Yoendrys Gómez
  2. 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Kody Clemens vs Hunter Bigge
  3. 3-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Jonathan Aranda vs Bailey Ober

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Cedric Mullins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Trevor Larnach — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.