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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-30

NYM @ TOR

Home plate: Sean Barber

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TOR
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ernie Clement — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Ernie Clement vs Nolan McLean
  2. 2-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Daulton Varsho vs Nolan McLean
  3. 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Alejandro Kirk vs Nolan McLean

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Ernie Clement — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.