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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14

SD @ MIL

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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: Sal Frelick — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Manny Machado — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Ty France vs Brian Fitzpatrick
  2. 2-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike
    William Contreras vs Matt Waldron
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Manny Machado vs DL Hall

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sal Frelick — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.