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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-04

SD @ LAD

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, LAD
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Gavin Sheets — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Xander Bogaerts — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Max Muncy — 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▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Dalton Rushing vs Kyle Hart
  2. 2-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Mookie Betts vs Griffin Canning
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Andy Pages vs Griffin Canning

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gavin Sheets — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Max Muncy — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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