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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13

SEA @ HOU

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, HOU
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jose Altuve vs Eduard Bazardo
  2. 2+0.13▼10 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Zach Cole vs Alex Hoppe
  3. 3-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Leo Rivas vs Steven Okert

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

  1. 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.