Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-20
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
Umpire Grade
91.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
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 143 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
- 1-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Ryan Ward vs Tanner Gordon - 2+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Jose Quintana - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ezequiel Tovar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.