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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-12

LAD @ CWS

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Alex Call — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Andy Pages — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Ryan Ward vs Trevor Richards
  2. 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jacob Gonzalez vs Blake Treinen
  3. 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Colson Montgomery vs Jonathan Hernández

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. 1Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Alex Call — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Andy Pages — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.