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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-28

COL @ CIN

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CIN
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Matt McLain vs Kyle Freeland
  2. 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Tyler Stephenson vs Kyle Freeland
  3. 3-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Edouard Julien vs Graham Ashcraft

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.