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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-20

LAD @ COL

Home plate: Adam Beck

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Ezequiel Tovar — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Hunter Goodman — 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. 1-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Ryan Ward vs Tanner Gordon
  2. 2+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Max Muncy vs Jose Quintana
  3. 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Alex Call vs Jose Quintana

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Ezequiel Tovar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.