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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

MIA @ PHI

Home plate: Sean Barber

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, PHI
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alec Bohm — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Heriberto Hernández — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Brandon Marsh vs Dax Fulton
  2. 2+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Kyle Schwarber vs Dax Fulton
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Leo Jiménez vs Max Lazar

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Alec Bohm — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Heriberto Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.