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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08

PIT @ SF

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, SF
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Joey Bart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Brandon Lowe vs Caleb Kilian
  2. 2+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Nick Yorke vs Robbie Ray
  3. 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Jung Hoo Lee vs Carmen Mlodzinski

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

  1. 1Joey Bart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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