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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-06

ATH @ PHI

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, ATH
7
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Adolis García — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Nick Kurtz vs Zack Wheeler
  2. 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    J.T. Realmuto vs Justin Sterner
  3. 3+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Zack Gelof vs Tim Mayza

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Adolis García — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Kyle Schwarber — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.