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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-20

STL @ MIA

Home plate: Scott Barry

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, STL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Otto Lopez vs Ryan Fernandez
  2. 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Iván Herrera vs Max Meyer
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Otto Lopez vs Ryan Fernandez

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

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

  1. 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.