Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, KC
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Ron Kulpa called the 212 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 199 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike
Francisco Lindor vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Carson Benge vs Seth Lugo - 3+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Isaac Collins vs Kodai Senga
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.
- 1Juan Soto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Michael Massey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.