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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-19

CWS @ SEA

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CWS
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 136 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: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲8 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Tristan Peters vs Luis Castillo
  2. 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Colt Emerson vs Anthony Kay
  3. 3-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Luisangel Acuña vs Andrés Muñoz

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

  1. 1Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.