Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-10
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Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CIN
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball
JJ Bleday vs Cody Bolton - 2+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Zach Cole vs Andrew Abbott - 3+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
JJ Bleday vs Cody Bolton
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1César Salazar — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.