Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-15
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
Umpire Grade
91.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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
- 1-0.28▲1 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
Trent Grisham vs Clay Holmes - 2-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Trent Grisham vs Clay Holmes - 3-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Carson Benge vs Cam Schlittler
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Brett Baty — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.