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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

LAA @ TB

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, LAA
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 141 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

Challenge 1: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Zach Neto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Vaughn Grissom vs Nick Martinez
  2. 2+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Zach Neto vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Yandy Díaz vs Ryan Zeferjahn

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

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Zach Neto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.