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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

NYM @ CIN

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

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Umpire Grade
89.6% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, CIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Marcus Semien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Marcus Semien vs Tejay Antone
  2. 2-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Carson Benge vs Sam Moll
  3. 3-0.23▲2 · 0-2 ball called strike
    A.J. Ewing vs Brady Singer

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.