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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

PHI @ KC

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, KC
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Kyle Schwarber vs Daniel Lynch IV
  2. 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Kameron Misner vs Aaron Nola
  3. 3-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Bryce Harper vs Matt Strahm

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

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

  1. 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Isaac Collins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Isaac Collins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Kyle Schwarber — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.