Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-17
TOR @ BOS
Home plate: Scott Barry
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TOR
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Isiah Kiner-Falefa vs Simeon Woods Richardson - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Nathan Lukes vs Danny Coulombe - 3-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Isiah Kiner-Falefa vs Simeon Woods Richardson
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Mickey Gasper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.