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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

CIN @ PHI

Home plate: Ryan Additon

The black wasn't in play tonight.

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CIN
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: P.J. Higgins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.307 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    JJ Bleday vs Tim Mayza
  2. 2+0.234 · 0-2 strike called ball
    P.J. Higgins vs Aaron Nola
  3. 3+0.207 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Elly De La Cruz vs Tim Mayza

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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1P.J. Higgins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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