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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.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
0.8
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 200 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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Ryan Kreidler vs Slade Cecconi
  2. 2+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Daniel Schneemann vs Taylor Rogers
  3. 3+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Luke Keaschall vs Slade Cecconi

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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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 7 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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