Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 145 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+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Rikuu Nishida vs Joe Ryan - 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kody Clemens vs Brandon Eisert - 3+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luke Keaschall vs Trevor Richards
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.