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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-30

LAD @ DET

Home plate: Scott Barry

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, LAD
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Colt Keith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ben Rortvedt — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Tyler Glasnow — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Ben Rortvedt — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Freddie Freeman vs Framber Valdez
  2. 2+0.19▼8 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Max Clark vs Kyle Hurt
  3. 3-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Javier Báez vs Kyle Hurt

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Ben Rortvedt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Tyler Glasnow — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Ben Rortvedt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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