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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11

COL @ SF

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SF
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Kyle Freeland — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Freeland — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Edouard Julien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jesus Rodriguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Hunter Goodman vs JT Brubaker
  2. 2+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball
    TJ Rumfield vs Tyler Mahle
  3. 3-0.10▲1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Mickey Moniak vs Tyler Mahle

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

  1. 1Kyle Freeland — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Freeland — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Edouard Julien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Jesus Rodriguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.