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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-09

CIN @ MIA

Home plate: Sean Barber

“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, MIA
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber 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: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: P.J. Higgins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Xavier Edwards — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Liam Hicks vs Rhett Lowder
  2. 2-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Spencer Steer vs Max Meyer
  3. 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Xavier Edwards vs Rhett Lowder

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. 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2P.J. Higgins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Xavier Edwards — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.