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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-23

MIN @ CLE

Home plate: Charlie Ramos

“ABS had a long evening on this one.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CLE
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 181 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Travis Bazzana — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (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+0.69▼9 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Travis Bazzana vs Yoendrys Gómez
  2. 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Steven Kwan vs Taj Bradley
  3. 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Steven Kwan vs Taj Bradley

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Travis Bazzana — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.

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