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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22

LAD @ MIN

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.7% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, MIN
8
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Andy Pages — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Ryan Kreidler vs Eric Lauer
  2. 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Freddie Freeman vs Taylor Rogers
  3. 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Andy Pages vs Zebby Matthews

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 8 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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