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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-20

TOR @ TB

Home plate: Sean Barber

“The robots earned their keep tonight.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, TOR
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jonathan Aranda — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Daz Cameron — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Daz Cameron — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Myles Straw vs Casey Legumina
  2. 2+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Myles Straw vs Casey Legumina
  3. 3+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Ernie Clement vs Ian Seymour

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.

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jonathan Aranda — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Daz Cameron — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Daz Cameron — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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