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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-10

MIL @ SD

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, SD
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Garrett Mitchell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Gavin Sheets vs Logan Henderson
  2. 2-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Andrew Vaughn vs Mason Miller
  3. 3+0.13▼8 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Jake Cronenworth vs Lyon Richardson

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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