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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07

BOS @ CWS

Home plate: Charlie Ramos

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, CWS
6
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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: Willson Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Connor Wong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Connor Wong — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Caleb Durbin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Randal Grichuk vs Payton Tolle
  2. 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Miguel Vargas vs Payton Tolle
  3. 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Anthony Seigler vs Brandon Eisert

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Willson Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  8. 8Caleb Durbin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.