Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07
“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”
Umpire Grade
85.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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
- 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Mickey Moniak vs Evan Phillips - 2+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs Michael Lorenzen - 3+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs Michael Lorenzen
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Karros — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.