Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-31
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Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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· challenged ✓
Lawrence Butler vs Enmanuel De Jesus - 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Tommy White vs Ty Madden - 3+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Jeffrey Springs
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Lawrence Butler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.