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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

PHI @ MIA

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, MIA
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Stowers vs Andrew Painter
  2. 2+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Jakob Marsee vs Tanner Banks
  3. 3+0.19▼7 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Liam Hicks vs Trevor Richards

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

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.