Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-28
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PIT
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs Julian Garcia - 2+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs Julian Garcia - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs Brady Singer
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Brandon Lowe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.