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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-19

STL @ HOU

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, HOU
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Victor Scott II — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Shay Whitcomb vs Matthew Liberatore
  2. 2-0.39▼9 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Yainer Diaz vs Riley O'Brien
  3. 3+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Christian Walker vs Matthew Liberatore

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Victor Scott II — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.