Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
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 115 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+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jarren Duran vs Sean Sullivan - 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Willson Contreras vs Sean Sullivan - 3+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball
Edouard Julien vs Sonny Gray
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.