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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01

BOS @ HOU

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.5% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, HOU
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Wilyer Abreu — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Caleb Durbin vs Kai-Wei Teng
  2. 2-0.21▲5 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Wilyer Abreu vs Mike Burrows
  3. 3+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Wilyer Abreu vs Mike Burrows

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

  1. 1Wilyer Abreu — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jose Altuve — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Christian Vázquez — 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.