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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

BAL @ LAD

Home plate: Charlie Ramos

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, LAD
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jackson Holliday — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Freddie Freeman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Yennier Cano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Samuel Basallo vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  2. 2+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Coby Mayo vs Alex Vesia
  3. 3+0.20▼9 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Mookie Betts vs Yennier Cano

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Colton Cowser — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jackson Holliday — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Freddie Freeman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Yennier Cano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.