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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-23

STL @ CIN

Home plate: Ben May

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, STL
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Iván Herrera — 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+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Eugenio Suárez vs Ryne Stanek
  2. 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    JJ Wetherholt vs Chris Paddack
  3. 3+0.21▲7 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Iván Herrera vs Connor Phillips

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

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.