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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11

MIL @ PIT

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.5% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, PIT
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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: Garrett Mitchell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Joey Ortiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Henry Davis — 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. 1-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Brice Turang vs Gregory Soto
  2. 2-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Christian Yelich vs Braxton Ashcraft
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Sal Frelick vs Carmen Mlodzinski

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.

  1. 1Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Joey Ortiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Henry Davis — 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.