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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-23

MIN @ NYM

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

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

A
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, MIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brett Baty — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Austin Martin vs Huascar Brazobán
  2. 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Brooks Lee vs Craig Kimbrel
  3. 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Brett Baty vs Andrew Morris

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.

  1. 1Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Brett Baty — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.