Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-16
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 170 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
- 1-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Chase Meidroth vs Tanner Rainey - 2-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Brett Callahan vs Sean Burke - 3+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Spencer Torkelson vs Sean Burke
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Anderson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Drew Anderson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Randal Grichuk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Braden Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.