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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

ATH @ DET

Home plate: Roberto Ortiz

“You could set a watch by that zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, ATH
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Jonah Heim vs Framber Valdez
  2. 2+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Lawrence Butler vs Framber Valdez
  3. 3-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Matt Vierling vs José Suarez

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.