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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-18

CLE @ MIL

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIL
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 212 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 200 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Stuart Fairchild — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Travis Bazzana — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Gary Sánchez vs Parker Messick
  2. 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Brice Turang vs Parker Messick
  3. 3+0.20▲9 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Rhys Hoskins vs Craig Yoho

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Stuart Fairchild — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Travis Bazzana — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.