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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01

CWS @ MIN

Home plate: Ben May

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B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, MIN
3
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 134 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Martin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Kody Clemens vs Brandon Eisert
  2. 2+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Kody Clemens vs David Sandlin
  3. 3+0.13▲9 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Sam Antonacci vs Travis Adams

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Martin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.