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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-14

CLE @ STL

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, STL
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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: Jordan Walker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alec Burleson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.19▼2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Ramón Urías vs Joey Cantillo
  2. 2+0.10▲8 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Chase DeLauter vs JoJo Romero
  3. 3-0.09▲1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Kyle Manzardo vs Michael McGreevy

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alec Burleson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.