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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-10

MIA @ DET

Home plate: Lance Barrett

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A
Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIA
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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 strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jakob Marsee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Graham Pauley vs Keider Montero
  2. 2+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Xavier Edwards vs Keider Montero
  3. 3+0.09▲4 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Otto Lopez vs Keider Montero

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Kevin McGonigle — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.