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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-16

SF @ ATH

Home plate: Cory Blaser

“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATH
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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: Brent Rooker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Rafael Devers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jesus Rodriguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Nick Kurtz vs Trevor McDonald
  2. 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Rafael Devers vs Luis Severino
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Shea Langeliers vs Erik Miller

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

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

  1. 1Brent Rooker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Rafael Devers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Jesus Rodriguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.