Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-13
“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, STL
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Connor Prielipp - 2-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Austin Martin vs Chris Roycroft - 3-0.39▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Royce Lewis vs Matthew Liberatore
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Royce Lewis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.