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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01

NYY @ SEA

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: George Kirby — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brendan Donovan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Josh Naylor — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Paul Goldschmidt vs George Kirby
  2. 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Austin Wells vs José A. Ferrer
  3. 3-0.23▲6 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Cody Bellinger vs George Kirby

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2George Kirby — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Brendan Donovan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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