Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-11
MIN @ DET
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
Umpire Grade
96.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs Keider Montero - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Tristan Gray vs Keider Montero - 3-0.13▼5 · 1-0 ball called strike
Riley Greene vs Zebby Matthews
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Tristan Gray — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.