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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-27

TB @ PHI

Home plate: Carlos Torres

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

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, PHI
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Alec Bohm — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Alec Bohm vs Nick Martinez
  2. 2+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Bryce Harper vs Jesse Scholtens
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Jonny DeLuca vs Jhoan Duran

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Alec Bohm — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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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