Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-01
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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
- 1-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Spencer Torkelson vs Connor Prielipp - 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Josh Bell vs Beau Brieske - 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Josh Bell vs Jacob Waguespack
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.