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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-28

AZ @ MIL

Home plate: Lance Barrett

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: Garrett Mitchell — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: James McCann — 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+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Sal Frelick vs Merrill Kelly
  2. 2+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jake Bauers vs Taylor Clarke
  3. 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Brandon Lockridge vs Merrill Kelly

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. 1Garrett Mitchell — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3James McCann — 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.