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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-21

MIN @ NYM

Home plate: Ryan Additon

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carson Benge — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    MJ Melendez vs Simeon Woods Richardson
  2. 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Carson Benge vs Justin Topa
  3. 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Brooks Lee vs Nolan McLean

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

  1. 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Carson Benge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.