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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01

LAA @ CHC

Home plate: David Rackley

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, LAA
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Dansby Swanson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Oswald Peraza — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Zach Neto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Oswald Peraza vs Matthew Boyd
  2. 2+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Michael Busch vs Brent Suter
  3. 3+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Yoán Moncada vs Matthew Boyd

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dansby Swanson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.