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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-25

TEX @ CWS

Home plate: Scott Barry

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CWS
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 187 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: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Brandon Nimmo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Sam Antonacci vs Jacob deGrom
  2. 2-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Elias Díaz vs Hagen Smith
  3. 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Danny Jansen vs Anthony Kay

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Danny Jansen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Brandon Nimmo — 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.

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