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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-13

AZ @ CIN

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“This one went to video review more than most.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.6% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, AZ
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 128 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

Challenge 1: Geraldo Perdomo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Corbin Carroll — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Geraldo Perdomo vs Rhett Lowder
  2. 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Adrian Del Castillo vs Rhett Lowder
  3. 3-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Adrian Del Castillo vs Caleb Ferguson

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Corbin Carroll — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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