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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-26

CLE @ SEA

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Steven Kwan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bo Naylor — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Chase DeLauter vs Logan Gilbert
  2. 2-0.39▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Cal Raleigh vs Erik Sabrowski
  3. 3+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Rhys Hoskins vs Casey Legumina

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Steven Kwan — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Bo Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.