Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-08
PHI @ TOR
Home plate: Jansen Visconti
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PHI
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Jansen Visconti called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Bryson Stott vs Simeon Woods Richardson - 2-0.10▼2 · 0-1 ball called strike
Kazuma Okamoto vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3-0.10▼3 · 0-1 ball called strike
George Springer vs Cristopher Sánchez
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Adolis García — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.