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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23

CLE @ CWS

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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 ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Steven Kwan vs Sean Burke
  2. 2+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Randal Grichuk vs Parker Messick
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Kahlil Watson vs Sean Burke

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.