Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
Umpire Grade
89.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 149 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Randy Arozarena vs Freddy Peralta - 2+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luis Torrens vs Eduard Bazardo - 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
J.P. Crawford vs Freddy Peralta
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.
- 1Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Eduard Bazardo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.