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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-30

BOS @ NYY

Home plate: Scott Barry

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, NYY
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Nick Sogard vs Max Fried
  2. 2+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Sonny Gray
  3. 3+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Ben Rice vs Alec Gamboa

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

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

  1. 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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