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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-01

NYM @ LAA

Home plate: Ben May

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYM
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Jo Adell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jorge Soler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Juan Soto vs Walbert Ureña
  2. 2-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Ronny Mauricio vs José Fermin
  3. 3+0.09▲8 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Francisco Alvarez vs Nick Sandlin

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jo Adell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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