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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30

TOR @ MIN

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 149 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: Trevor Larnach — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Davis Schneider vs Anthony Banda
  2. 2+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Brandon Valenzuela vs Bailey Ober
  3. 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Josh Bell vs Kevin Gausman

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Trevor Larnach — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.