Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, STL
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs Danny Young - 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs JR Ritchie - 3+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Dylan Lee
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.