Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-30
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, BOS
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jarren Duran vs Cade Cavalli - 2+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
Dylan Crews vs Connelly Early - 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Willson Contreras vs Cade Cavalli
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.