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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-15

AZ @ COL

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Mickey Moniak — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edouard Julien — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Gabriel Moreno vs Kyle Freeland
  2. 2-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Lourdes Gurriel Jr. vs Kyle Freeland
  3. 3-0.10▲3 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Gabriel Moreno vs Kyle Freeland

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mickey Moniak — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Edouard Julien — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.