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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-16

LAD @ LAA

Home plate: Scott Barry

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, LAD
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 172 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: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Andy Pages vs José Soriano
  2. 2-0.39▼9 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Zach Neto vs Charlie Barnes
  3. 3+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Josh Lowe vs Blake Treinen

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.