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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30

DET @ ATL

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, DET
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gleyber Torres — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Kevin McGonigle vs Bryce Elder
  2. 2+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Austin Riley vs Framber Valdez
  3. 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Gleyber Torres vs Tyler Kinley

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gleyber Torres — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.