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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

BAL @ NYY

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, NYY
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 205 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 197 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: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Blaze Alexander — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Blaze Alexander — 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. 1-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Blaze Alexander vs Ryan Weathers
  2. 2+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    José Caballero vs Kyle Bradish
  3. 3+0.19▼7 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Ben Rice vs Anthony Nunez

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. 1J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.