Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30
SF @ PHI
Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SF
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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 ball called strike
Trea Turner vs Erik Miller - 2+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
Casey Schmitt vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3-0.19▼9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Adolis García vs Ryan Walker
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Cristopher Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Rafael Marchán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.