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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

KC @ BAL

Home plate: Ryan Additon

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, KC
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Taylor Ward — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Carter Jensen vs Shane Baz
  2. 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Gunnar Henderson vs Seth Lugo
  3. 3+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Bobby Witt Jr. vs Yennier Cano

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.