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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-17

CWS @ CHC

Home plate: Scott Barry

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, CHC
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 198 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 180 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: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Pedro Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Braden Montgomery — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼9 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Ian Happ vs Jordan Hicks
  2. 2+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami vs Shota Imanaga
  3. 3-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Sam Antonacci vs Shota Imanaga

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Pedro Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Braden Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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