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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29

TEX @ PHI

Home plate: Sean Barber

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TEX
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 176 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jake Burger — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Bryce Harper vs MacKenzie Gore
  2. 2+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Brandon Nimmo vs Jesús Luzardo
  3. 3-0.09▲1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Wyatt Langford vs Jesús Luzardo

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jake Burger — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Schwarber — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.