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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-12

LAA @ CIN

Home plate: Ben May

“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, CIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 204 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 189 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: P.J. Higgins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Nathaniel Lowe vs José Soriano
  2. 2+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Elly De La Cruz vs José Soriano
  3. 3+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Mike Trout vs Kyle Nicolas

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

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

  1. 1P.J. Higgins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.