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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

CIN @ TB

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: P.J. Higgins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Ryan Vilade vs Brandon Williamson
  2. 2-0.13▲5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Nathaniel Lowe vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3-0.10▼1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Yandy Díaz vs Brandon Williamson

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

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2P.J. Higgins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.