Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-22
TEX @ LAA
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAA
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Evan Carter vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Cal Quantrill - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Oswald Peraza vs Jalen Beeks
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.