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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-26

COL @ NYM

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, COL
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Bo Bichette — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Luis Robert Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Ezequiel Tovar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Luis Robert Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Brett Baty vs Juan Mejia
  2. 2-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Bo Bichette vs Jose Quintana
  3. 3+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Luis Robert Jr. vs Jose Quintana

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

  1. 1Bo Bichette — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Luis Robert Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Ezequiel Tovar — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Luis Robert Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.