Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-26
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CHC
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Seiya Suzuki vs Jacob Misiorowski - 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Jacob Misiorowski - 3+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Garrett Mitchell vs Colin Rea
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.