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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23

BOS @ COL

Home plate: Ben May

“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Ben May called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Connor Wong — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Caleb Durbin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Willson Contreras vs Sean Sullivan
  2. 2+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Edouard Julien vs Sonny Gray
  3. 3+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Edouard Julien vs Garrett Whitlock

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. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.