Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-02
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Tommy Edman vs Germán Márquez - 2+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Teoscar Hernández vs Germán Márquez - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Xander Bogaerts vs Roki Sasaki
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Samad Taylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.