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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-25

TEX @ TOR

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TOR
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Davis Schneider — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Brandon Valenzuela vs Jacob Latz
  2. 2+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Kyle Higashioka vs Kevin Gausman
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Davis Schneider vs MacKenzie Gore

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Davis Schneider — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.