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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

CLE @ MIN

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CLE
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Trevor Larnach vs Gavin Williams
  2. 2+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Steven Kwan vs Woo-Suk Go
  3. 3+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Alex Jackson vs Gavin Williams

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.