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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-26

KC @ CWS

Home plate: Sean Barber

“The zone kept its promises.”

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Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CWS
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼4 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Colson Montgomery vs Beck Way
  2. 2+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs Tyler Tolbert
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Miguel Vargas vs Lucas Erceg

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.