Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Jovani Morán - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jarren Duran vs Framber Valdez - 3+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Wenceel Pérez vs Brayan Bello
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Hao-Yu Lee — 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.