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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-29

CLE @ CIN

Home plate: Lance Barrett

Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 208 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 196 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

Challenge 1: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Elly De La Cruz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.195 · 2-0 ball called strike
    José Ramírez vs Brady Singer
  2. 2-0.197 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Steven Kwan vs Julian Garcia
  3. 3-0.199 · 2-0 ball called strike
    JJ Bleday vs Cade Smith

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.

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