Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-15
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIA
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 138 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▼1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Drake Baldwin vs Chris Paddack - 2+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Heriberto Hernández vs Dylan Lee - 3+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Chris Paddack
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.