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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-11

SF @ LAD

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, SF
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Matt Chapman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Teoscar Hernández — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Miguel Rojas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Will Smith — 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 strike called ball
    Jesus Rodriguez vs Roki Sasaki
  2. 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Mookie Betts vs Trevor McDonald
  3. 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Heliot Ramos vs Wyatt Mills

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. 1Matt Chapman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Teoscar Hernández — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.