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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

PIT @ AZ

Home plate: Ben May

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, PIT
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Bryan Reynolds — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Geraldo Perdomo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Marcell Ozuna — 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+0.69▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Bryan Reynolds vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  2. 2-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Joey Bart vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  3. 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Lourdes Gurriel Jr. vs Evan Sisk

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. 1Bryan Reynolds — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Marcell Ozuna — 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.