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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

BAL @ MIA

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”

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Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
1.4
Run Favor
runs, BAL
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Gunnar Henderson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Taylor Ward — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Owen Caissie vs Chris Bassitt
  2. 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Taylor Ward vs Sandy Alcantara
  3. 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Kyle Stowers vs Chris Bassitt

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

  1. 1Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Taylor Ward — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Liam Hicks — 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.