Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
Umpire Grade
90.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PIT
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs JR Ritchie - 2+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Bryan Reynolds vs Bryce Elder - 3-0.30▼2 · 3-1 ball called strike
Nick Gonzales vs Bryce Elder
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Bryan Reynolds — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dominic Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Yohan Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Mauricio Dubón — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.