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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-30

PHI @ ATL

Home plate: Adam Beck

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, PHI
7
ABS Overturns
of 10 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 142 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: Sean Murphy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sean Murphy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Sean Murphy — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Austin Riley — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: Matt Olson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).10
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼10 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Matt Olson vs Andrew Painter
  2. 2+0.23▼10 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Dominic Smith vs Andrew Painter
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Austin Riley vs Andrew Painter

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

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

  1. 1Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Sean Murphy — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Austin Riley — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  9. 9Matt Olson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  10. 10J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 8 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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