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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.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
1.6
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 138 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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (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· challenged ✓
    Luke Keaschall vs Eric Lauer
  2. 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Ryan Kreidler vs Eric Lauer
  3. 3+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Kody Clemens vs Eric Lauer

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

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

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.