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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05

BOS @ NYY

Home plate: Sean Barber

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

C+
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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: Mickey Gasper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ceddanne Rafaela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Connor Wong — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Ben Rice vs Sonny Gray
  2. 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Ben Rice vs Danny Coulombe
  3. 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Cody Bellinger vs Sonny Gray

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mickey Gasper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.