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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

ATL @ CIN

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Michael Harris II — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Tyler Stephenson vs Grant Holmes
  2. 2-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Spencer Steer vs Tyler Kinley
  3. 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Chris Paddack

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Chadwick Tromp — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Michael Harris II — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.