Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30
TB @ MIL
Home plate: Jeremie Rehak
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TB
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ryan Vilade vs Kyle Harrison - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Nick Fortes vs Aaron Ashby - 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
Ryan Vilade vs Kyle Harrison
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.