Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-07
“ABS had a long evening on this one.”
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CHC
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ian Happ vs Mason Black - 2-0.39▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike
Ian Happ vs Jose Cuas - 3-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Michael Massey vs Kevin Gausman
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Michael Massey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.