Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-11
“ABS had a long evening on this one.”
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PIT
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike
Javier Sanoja vs Yohan Ramírez - 2+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jake Mangum vs Eury Pérez - 3-0.23▼4 · 0-2 ball called strike
Owen Caissie vs Paul Skenes
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Ronny Simon — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 7Griffin Conine — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.