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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-04

SF @ COL

Home plate: Scott Barry

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, SF
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Heliot Ramos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Victor Bericoto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Hunter Goodman — 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+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Rafael Devers vs Sean Sullivan
  2. 2+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Eric Haase vs Sean Sullivan
  3. 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Willi Castro vs Robbie Ray

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Heliot Ramos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Victor Bericoto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.