Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-26
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Paul Goldschmidt vs Chase Shugart - 2+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball
Brandon Marsh vs Ryan Yarbrough - 3-0.19▼2 · 2-0 ball called strike
J.T. Realmuto vs Will Warren
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cristopher Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Max Schuemann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.