Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-27
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
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 144 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
Christopher Morel vs Antonio Senzatela - 2+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Joey Ortiz vs Sean Manaea - 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Francisco Alvarez vs Jacob Misiorowski
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.