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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-17

CWS @ TOR

Home plate: Scott Barry

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, TOR
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲4 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Kyle Teel vs Spencer Miles
  2. 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    George Springer vs Trevor Richards
  3. 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Sam Antonacci vs CJ Van Eyk

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.