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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

ATL @ MIA

Home plate: Lance Barrett

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, MIA
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Riley — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲2 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Mike Yastrzemski vs Janson Junk
  2. 2+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Matt Olson vs Janson Junk
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Sandy León vs Javier Sanoja

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

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

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Riley — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.