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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-11

STL @ NYM

Home plate: Scott Barry

“The zone had wings tonight.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, NYM
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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: Juan Soto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jimmy Crooks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Iván Herrera vs Christian Scott
  2. 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Jared Young vs JoJo Romero
  3. 3+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    JJ Wetherholt vs Christian Scott

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Juan Soto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.