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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-11

CWS @ KC

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CWS
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Tanner Murray — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Andrew Benintendi — 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+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Carter Jensen vs Sean Newcomb
  2. 2+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs Michael Wacha
  3. 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Tanner Murray vs Michael Wacha

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. 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Tanner Murray — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Andrew Benintendi — 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.