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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-06

PIT @ MIL

Home plate: Sean Barber

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, PIT
6
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Henry Davis — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Henry Davis — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Spencer Horwitz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Henry Davis vs Aaron Ashby
  2. 2-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Luis Lara vs Gregory Soto
  3. 3+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Spencer Horwitz vs Chad Patrick

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Spencer Horwitz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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