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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01

DET @ TB

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, DET
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 184 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 176 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: Colt Keith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Junior Caminero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ryan Vilade — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Jahmai Jones — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Junior Caminero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jahmai Jones vs Garrett Cleavinger
  2. 2-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Ben Williamson vs Kyle Finnegan
  3. 3-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Yandy Díaz vs Ty Madden

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Colt Keith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Junior Caminero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Jahmai Jones — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.