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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-07

CHC @ MIL

Home plate: Scott Barry

“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.2% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CHC
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Carson Kelly vs Robert Gasser
  2. 2-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Andrew Vaughn vs Matthew Boyd
  3. 3+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Seiya Suzuki vs Robert Gasser

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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