Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-15
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
Umpire Grade
92.0% 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 160 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 - 2-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Carson Benge vs Cam Schlittler - 3-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged
Ben Rice vs Clay Holmes
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Brett Baty — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.