Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-29
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
Umpire Grade
89.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 3 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 138 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▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Wilyer Abreu vs Max Fried - 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Brayan Bello - 3-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
Trent Grisham vs Raymond Burgos
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Brayan Bello — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.