Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-24
CLE @ TOR
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“The zone stretched its legs.”
Umpire Grade
86.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CLE
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bo Naylor vs Mason Fluharty - 2+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Daniel Schneemann vs Mason Fluharty - 3-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
Jesús Sánchez vs Gavin Williams
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Davis Schneider — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Bo Naylor — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Davis Schneider — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.