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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-08

CLE @ MIN

Home plate: Ryan Additon

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CLE
5
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 220 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 205 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Luke Keaschall vs Slade Cecconi
  2. 2-0.21▼7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Ryan Kreidler vs Shawn Armstrong
  3. 3-0.20▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    David Fry vs Connor Prielipp

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

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

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  9. 9Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.