Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-01
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TB
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Ben May called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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
- 1-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Carson Benge vs Freddy Peralta - 2-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Junior Caminero vs Austin Warren - 3-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
A.J. Ewing vs Freddy Peralta
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.