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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-18

CIN @ PHI

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CIN
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Edmundo Sosa — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    JJ Bleday vs Andrew Painter
  2. 2+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball
    J.T. Realmuto vs Tejay Antone
  3. 3-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    J.T. Realmuto vs Nick Lodolo

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Edmundo Sosa — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3JJ Bleday — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.