Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-12
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SD
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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
- 1-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Gavin Sheets vs Shane Baz - 2-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Colton Cowser vs Wandy Peralta - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Tyler O'Neill vs Wandy Peralta
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Shane Baz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.