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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-28

TOR @ WSH

Home plate: Jonathan Parra

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, WSH
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Jonathan Parra called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Luis Urías — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲8 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Brandon Valenzuela vs Orlando Ribalta
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Daylen Lile vs Shane Bieber
  3. 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    James Wood vs Brendon Little

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Luis Urías — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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