Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-08
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Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, WSH
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
James Wood vs Logan Webb - 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Jorbit Vivas vs Logan Webb - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Luis Arraez vs Mitchell Parker
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Eric Haase — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Curtis Mead — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.