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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-23

SD @ COL

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, COL
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Ramón Laureano — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    TJ Rumfield vs Matt Waldron
  2. 2+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Xander Bogaerts vs Zach Agnos
  3. 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Mickey Moniak vs Adrian Morejon

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Ramón Laureano — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.