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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-10

MIL @ SD

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.4
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 122 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 ball, the robot ruled strike (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 ball, the robot ruled strike (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+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Brice Turang vs Adrian Morejon
  3. 3-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Andrew Vaughn vs Mason Miller

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 ball, robot ruled strike: 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 ball, robot ruled strike: 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 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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