Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08
WSH @ MIA
Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, WSH
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Curtis Mead vs Robby Snelling - 2-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike
Leo Jiménez vs Foster Griffin - 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Xavier Edwards vs Foster Griffin
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jacob Young — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Curtis Mead — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.