Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-12
COL @ DET
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Kyle Karros vs Andrew Sears - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Kyle Karros vs Beau Brieske - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
TJ Rumfield vs Andrew Sears
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Eduardo Valencia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Adael Amador — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Eduardo Valencia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Gleyber Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Eduardo Valencia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.