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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-01

DET @ NYY

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, NYY
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Matt Vierling vs Brent Headrick
  2. 2-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    James Outman vs Will Warren
  3. 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
    José Caballero vs Troy Melton

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.