Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-15
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
Umpire Grade
88.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Davis Schneider vs Brant Hurter - 2-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Josh Smith vs Drew Anderson - 3-0.28▲7 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Hao-Yu Lee vs Spencer Arrighetti
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.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Josh Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Hao-Yu Lee — 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.