Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-23
“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”
Umpire Grade
96.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, WSH
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Ron Kulpa called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jorbit Vivas vs Grant Holmes - 2-0.10▲6 · 0-1 ball called strike
Daylen Lile vs Dylan Dodd - 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Grant Holmes
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.
- 1CJ Abrams — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Chadwick Tromp — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4CJ Abrams — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.