Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-09
LAD @ AZ
Home plate: Carlos Torres
“The zone stretched its legs.”
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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 ball called strike
Tim Tawa vs Evan Phillips - 2+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 3-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Nolan Arenado vs Justin Wrobleski
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.