Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-28
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAA
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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
- 1-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs José Fermin - 2-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Sam Aldegheri - 3+0.09▲5 · 0-0 strike called ball
Alika Williams vs Sam Aldegheri
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.