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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-17

TB @ BOS

Home plate: Lance Barrett

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, TB
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Willson Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Cedric Mullins vs Tyron Guerrero
  2. 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Wilyer Abreu vs Mason Englert
  3. 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Caleb Durbin vs Craig Kimbrel

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Willson Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.