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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14

ATL @ NYM

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, ATL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: MJ Melendez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Marcus Semien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.21▲7 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Mike Yastrzemski vs Daniel Duarte
  2. 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Carson Benge vs Bryce Elder
  3. 3-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jared Young vs Bryce Elder

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. 1MJ Melendez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.