Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-18
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Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PHI
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brandon Marsh vs Kodai Senga - 2+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Edmundo Sosa vs Sean Manaea - 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
Eric Wagaman vs Jesús Luzardo
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Francisco Lindor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.