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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-16

BAL @ CLE

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“The zone stretched its legs.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CLE
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Kyle Manzardo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Taylor Ward — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Taylor Ward vs Parker Messick
  2. 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Chase DeLauter vs Cameron Foster
  3. 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Austin Hedges vs Shane Baz

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Manzardo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.