Fever BaseballFuture Value Radar (FVR) · On the record
RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
Support the paperGet the Digest
Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-01

CWS @ BAL

Home plate: Carlos Torres

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, BAL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Andrew Benintendi vs Dean Kremer
  2. 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Gunnar Henderson vs Noah Schultz
  3. 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Gunnar Henderson vs Noah Schultz

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

  1. 1Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.