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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30

SF @ SD

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, SF
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Willy Adames — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Manny Machado — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — 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. 1-0.28▼2 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Gavin Sheets vs Landen Roupp
  2. 2-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Ryan Walker
  3. 3-0.13▲2 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Luis Arraez vs Walker Buehler

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Manny Machado — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.