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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-09

BOS @ TB

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 100 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 96 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ceddanne Rafaela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Mickey Gasper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Austin Slater vs Payton Tolle
  2. 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Willson Contreras vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Nick Fortes vs Garrett Whitlock

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.

  1. 1Mickey Gasper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Mickey Gasper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.