Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-28
“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIL
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jake Bauers vs Chase Silseth - 2+0.21▼1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Jake Bauers vs Cody Bradford - 3+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jake Bauers vs Chase Silseth
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Nimmo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.