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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-24

NYY @ HOU

Home plate: Adam Beck

“The zone kept its promises.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYY
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 184 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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: Aaron Judge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Jazz Chisholm Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    J.C. Escarra vs Colton Gordon
  2. 2-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Ryan McMahon vs Colton Gordon
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Ben Rice vs Lance McCullers Jr.

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Aaron Judge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4J.C. Escarra — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5J.C. Escarra — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.