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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-13

COL @ ATH

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“The zone had wings tonight.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, ATH
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Sterlin Thompson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Carlos Cortes vs Jaden Hill
  2. 2+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Edouard Julien vs Joey Estes
  3. 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Zack Gelof vs Kyle Freeland

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Sterlin Thompson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.