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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

CIN @ STL

Home plate: Ben May

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, STL
4
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jimmy Crooks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Eugenio Suárez vs Gordon Graceffo
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Alec Burleson vs Nick Lodolo
  3. 3-0.10▼4 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Victor Scott II vs Nick Lodolo

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

  1. 1Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Jimmy Crooks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.