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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

ATH @ NYY

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Trent Grisham — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Lawrence Butler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Ben Rice vs Luis Severino
  2. 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Nick Kurtz vs Tim Hill
  3. 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Elvis Alvarado

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2J.C. Escarra — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Trent Grisham — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.