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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-28

TB @ STL

Home plate: David Rackley

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, STL
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Jake Fraley — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Jake Fraley vs Michael McGreevy
  2. 2+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Junior Caminero vs Michael McGreevy
  3. 3-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Alec Burleson vs Joe Boyle

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jake Fraley — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.