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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

LAD @ TOR

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.6% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Davis Schneider — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Alex Freeland vs Tyler Rogers
  2. 2+0.21▼7 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Blake Treinen
  3. 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Miguel Rojas vs Mason Fluharty

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Davis Schneider — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.