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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-26

CIN @ SF

Home plate: Ryan Blakney

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, SF
6
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 198 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 182 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: Dane Myers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Andrew Knizner — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Andrew Knizner — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Andrew Knizner — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲1 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Eugenio Suárez vs Logan Webb
  2. 2+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Turner Hill vs Nick Lodolo
  3. 3+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
    JJ Bleday vs Spencer Bivens

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Dane Myers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Andrew Knizner — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Andrew Knizner — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Andrew Knizner — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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