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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
93.1% accurate
0.3
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 148 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    P.J. Higgins vs Aaron Nola
  2. 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Sal Stewart vs Orion Kerkering
  3. 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Brandon Marsh vs Andrew Abbott

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1P.J. Higgins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.