Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
92.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, STL
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 141 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+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Sal Stewart vs Riley O'Brien - 2-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Eugenio Suárez vs Gordon Graceffo - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Sal Stewart vs Matthew Liberatore
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.