Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-22
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TB
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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
- 1-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Chandler Simpson vs Jeff Hoffman - 2-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Junior Caminero vs Braydon Fisher - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Victor Mesa Jr. vs Spencer Miles
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.