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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

BAL @ BOS

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, BAL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Mickey Gasper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Adley Rutschman — 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+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Marcelo Mayer vs Albert Suárez
  2. 2-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Caleb Durbin vs Albert Suárez
  3. 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Masataka Yoshida vs Grant Wolfram

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. 1Mickey Gasper — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.