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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-01

TEX @ DET

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, DET
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 189 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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: Corey Seager — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: MacKenzie Gore — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Alejandro Osuna vs Jack Flaherty
  2. 2+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Gleyber Torres vs Jacob Latz
  3. 3-0.30▲3 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Evan Carter vs Jack Flaherty

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Corey Seager — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2MacKenzie Gore — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.