Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-07
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CIN
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Laz Diaz called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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
- 1-0.69▲4 · 3-2 ball called strike
Noelvi Marte vs Cade Cavalli - 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Matt McLain vs Yovanny Cruz - 3-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
JJ Bleday vs Cade Cavalli
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.