Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-30
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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
- 1-0.39▲2 · 2-2 ball called strike
Griffin Conine vs Nolan McLean - 2-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike
Otto Lopez vs Nolan McLean - 3-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jorge Polanco vs Eury Pérez
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Heriberto Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jorge Polanco — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.