Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-25
SD @ MIA
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“The zone stretched its legs.”
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIA
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jakob Marsee vs JP Sears - 2-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Heriberto Hernández vs Matt Waldron - 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Dax Fulton
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Esteury Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.