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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-12

WSH @ MIL

Home plate: Carlos Torres

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, WSH
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 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 131 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: Drew Millas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jorbit Vivas vs Brandon Woodruff
  2. 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Curtis Mead vs Angel Zerpa
  3. 3-0.13▼5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Joey Ortiz vs Zack Littell

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

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

  1. 1Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.