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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-04

ATL @ SEA

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, ATL
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Sean Murphy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Sean Murphy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Leo Rivas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Mitch Garver vs JR Ritchie
  2. 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Matt Olson vs Logan Gilbert
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Matt Olson vs Logan Gilbert

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Leo Rivas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.