MLB ABS Umpire Tracker

Every Automated Ball-Strike challenge in the 2026 MLB regular season, joined to the home-plate umpire who made the original call. Refreshed daily after the last game.

ABS Challenges

194

events captured

Overturned

calls flipped by ABS

League Overturn Rate

51.0 %

of all challenges

Plate Umpires

tracked this season

Last Game

2026-07-18

most recent ingest

Trends, patterns & fun facts

The catcher knows best

61.1 %

Catchers win 61.1% of the challenges they call. Pitchers? Just 0%. Don't waste your challenges on what the guy on the mound thinks.

ABS is pitcher-friendly

+ 12

Net strikeouts added by overturned challenges. ABS has handed pitchers 12 more K's than it's taken away — and removed 4 walks on balance.

First-pitch ambush

67.3 %

The 0-0 count is challenged most often AND overturned at 67.3%. Hitters and catchers are leading off at-bats with high-confidence challenges.

Sharpest challengers

CHC

The CHC lead the league with a 75% challenge-success rate (minimum 8 attempts). Their bench knows when to pull the trigger.

The shadow zone — every overturned pitch, on the plate

Catcher's view. Each dot is a pitch the umpire called that ABS later ruled on. Red dots were overturned (umpire missed it); gray dots were confirmed (umpire got it right). The rectangle is the ABS strike zone (17″ wide, normalized to batter height).

Overturned (99) Confirmed (95) ABS strike zone

Reading the plate. Red dots inside the dashed zone = umpire called a ball on a strike — pitcher won that challenge. Red dots outside the dashed zone = umpire called a strike on a ball — batter won. Notice the cluster of red just outside the right edge: those are the famous "off-the-plate" called strikes that catchers know to challenge. Heart-of-plate is mostly gray because heart-of-plate calls are rarely close enough to challenge.

League distribution

Full leaderboard

🚨 = ≥65% overturned (8+ challenges) ⚠️ = ≥60% overturned (5+ challenges) Reliable % = Wilson 95% lower bound — corrects for small samples RV swing = absolute run-value change from overturned calls

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Why two percentages? Raw % treats a 1-of-1 the same as a 25-of-50 — both show 100% / 50%. The Reliable % column applies the Wilson 95% confidence lower bound, which shrinks small-sample numbers toward the league mean. Sort by Reliable % to see which umpires the ABS system is correcting consistently, not just occasionally with luck.

The fair view — accuracy on every called pitch

Challenge data only covers ~5% of pitches and is biased toward calls players think are wrong. The view below is built from every called pitch in 2026 (104,000+), classified against the ABS strike zone independently. This is the unbiased accuracy metric.

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What "stolen strikes" means. A called strike on a pitch that the ABS zone says was a ball — the umpire gave the pitcher a strike that wasn't there. Lost strikes = the inverse (ball called on a pitch in the zone). The Net bias column is positive when the umpire systematically favors pitchers (stolen − lost). Across MLB, stolen strikes outnumber lost strikes ~20-to-1 — umpires are pitcher-friendly, and ABS now measures by how much.

Biggest moments of the season

STL @ AZ

+1.828

Run-value swing

Nootbaar, Lars at the plate, Kelly, Merrill pitching · inning 1 · 3-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: Bill Miller · Jul 17

TEX @ ATL

+1.430

Run-value swing

Jarvis, Jim at the plate, Quantrill, Cal pitching · inning 2 · 3-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: Chris Conroy · Jul 17

MIN @ CHC

+0.713

Run-value swing

Ramirez, Pedro at the plate, Bradley, Taj pitching · inning 2 · 3-2 count
Original call: strike → ABS: ball · challenged by batter

⚡ STRIKEOUT REMOVED

HP: Nate Tomlinson · Jul 18

WSH @ ATH

+0.613

Run-value swing

Ford, Harry at the plate, Tur, Yunior pitching · inning 6 · 3-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: John Libka · Jul 17

HOU @ TEX

+0.517

Run-value swing

Paredes, Isaac at the plate, Gray, Peyton pitching · inning 7 · 2-1 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

HP: Adrian Johnson · Jul 12

TOR @ SD

+0.462

Run-value swing

Cronenworth, Jake at the plate, Gausman, Kevin pitching · inning 4 · 2-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: Jen Pawol · Jul 12

MIL @ PIT

+0.452

Run-value swing

Yelich, Christian at the plate, Skenes, Paul pitching · inning 5 · 3-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: Alfonso Márquez · Jul 12

CWS @ TOR

+0.429

Run-value swing

Murakami, Munetaka at the plate, Miles, Spencer pitching · inning 1 · 3-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: Scott Barry · Jul 17

NYM @ PHI

+0.420

Run-value swing

Marsh, Brandon at the plate, Senga, Kodai pitching · inning 6 · 0-2 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ STRIKEOUT ADDED

HP: Adam Beck · Jul 18

#10

CWS @ TOR

+0.348

Run-value swing

Springer, George at the plate, Kay, Anthony pitching · inning 3 · 1-1 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

HP: Scott Barry · Jul 17

#11

MIN @ CHC

+0.337

Run-value swing

Happ, Ian at the plate, Gomez, Yoendrys pitching · inning 9 · 3-1 count
Original call: ball → ABS: strike · challenged by catcher

⚡ WALK REMOVED

HP: Bruce Dreckman · Jul 17

#12

STL @ AZ

+0.337

Run-value swing

Perdomo, Geraldo at the plate, Gastelum, Luis pitching · inning 8 · 3-1 count
Original call: strike → ABS: ball · challenged by batter

⚡ WALK ADDED

HP: Bill Miller · Jul 17

Latest overturned calls

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Every challenge

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About this dashboard. The MLB Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System debuted league-wide in the 2026 season. Each team gets two challenges per game (kept on success, lost after two failures). Only batters, pitchers, and catchers may challenge. The ABS strike zone is 17″ wide, 53.5% of batter height at top, 27% at bottom, measured at the middle of the plate.

Reading note. Overturn rate is a biased sample — players only challenge ~5% of pitches, and they prefer to challenge calls they think are wrong. A high overturn % means an umpire is being challenged successfully when challenged — not that they're miscalling every pitch. For the fairer per-pitch accuracy view, ingest Statcast pitch data with abs-umpires daily-refresh --with-statcast.

Sources. Event data: Savant /abs page (vizChallenges). Umpire crews: MLB StatsAPI schedule?hydrate=officials. Refreshed daily at 10:00 UTC.