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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-16

KC @ STL

Home plate: Ryan Additon

“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”

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Umpire Grade
89.1% accurate
1.4
Run Favor
runs, KC
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Isaac Collins vs Kyle Leahy
  2. 2-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Masyn Winn vs Noah Cameron
  3. 3-0.23▼4 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Alec Burleson vs Noah Cameron

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

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.