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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-24

DET @ BAL

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“The zone had wings tonight.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, DET
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Tyler O'Neill — 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+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Spencer Torkelson vs Trevor Rogers
  2. 2-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Adley Rutschman vs Troy Melton
  3. 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Zack Short vs Albert Suárez

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. 1Colton Cowser — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Tyler O'Neill — 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.