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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

TOR @ SEA

Home plate: Dexter Kelley

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TOR
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Yohendrick Piñango vs Emerson Hancock
  2. 2+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Cal Raleigh vs Mason Fluharty
  3. 3-0.10▼1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Randy Arozarena vs Trey Yesavage

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

  1. 1Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.