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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-28

LAA @ DET

Home plate: Ben May

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, DET
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Sebastián Rivero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Sebastián Rivero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Oswald Peraza — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Kevin McGonigle vs Grayson Rodriguez
  2. 2+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Dillon Dingler vs Grayson Rodriguez
  3. 3-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Colt Keith vs Grayson Rodriguez

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kevin McGonigle — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Sebastián Rivero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Sebastián Rivero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Oswald Peraza — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.