Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-30
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
Umpire Grade
89.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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
- 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Tommy Edman vs Bryan Woo - 2-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Mookie Betts vs Alex Hoppe - 3+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dominic Canzone vs Roki Sasaki
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.
- 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Tommy Edman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.