Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-25
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAA
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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+0.30▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jo Adell vs Robbie Ray - 2+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
Vaughn Grissom vs Keaton Winn - 3-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Logan O'Hoppe vs Robbie Ray
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jo Adell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Vaughn Grissom — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.