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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-30

KC @ TEX

Home plate: Carlos Torres

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TEX
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Ezequiel Duran — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲7 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Lane Thomas vs Tyler Alexander
  2. 2-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Brandon Nimmo vs Daniel Lynch IV
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Carter Jensen vs Chris Martin

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. 1Ezequiel Duran — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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