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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01

TEX @ STL

Home plate: Scott Barry

“The zone stretched its legs.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.5% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, STL
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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: Jordan Walker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Justin Bruihl
  2. 2-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Nicky Lopez vs George Soriano
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Ezequiel Duran vs George Soriano

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

  1. 1Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.