Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-09
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Alex Call vs Dylan Lee - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Hyeseong Kim vs Spencer Strider - 3-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Spencer Strider
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.