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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-04

NYM @ COL

Home plate: D.J. Reyburn

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

D
Umpire Grade
85.9% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, NYM
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 106 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 91 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: Brenton Doyle — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carson Benge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Tyler Freeman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Tyler Freeman vs David Peterson
  2. 2-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Kyle Karros vs David Peterson
  3. 3+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Karros vs David Peterson

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.

  1. 1Brenton Doyle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Carson Benge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Tyler Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.