Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01
TEX @ STL
Home plate: Scott Barry
“The zone stretched its legs.”
Umpire Grade
89.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, STL
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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs Justin Bruihl - 2-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Nicky Lopez vs George Soriano - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 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.