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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

MIN @ PIT

Home plate: Jansen Visconti

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

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Jansen Visconti called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Endy Rodríguez vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Tristan Gray vs Wilber Dotel
  3. 3+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Brooks Lee vs Wilber Dotel

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.