Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16
“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TOR
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Ron Kulpa called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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
- 1-0.69▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wilyer Abreu vs Dylan Cease - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Davis Schneider vs Payton Tolle - 3-0.20▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike
Alejandro Kirk vs Payton Tolle
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Wilyer Abreu — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.