Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-17
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CIN
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Elly De La Cruz vs Peter Strzelecki - 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Rhett Lowder - 3+0.19▲10 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
José Fermín vs Emilio Pagán
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Elly De La Cruz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5José Fermín — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.