Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-22
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
Umpire Grade
91.5% 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 129 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▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jonathan Aranda vs Tyler Rogers - 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Myles Straw vs Cam Booser - 3-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Chandler Simpson vs Jeff Hoffman
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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.