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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

HOU @ COL

Home plate: David Rackley

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Cam Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Edouard Julien vs Christian Roa
  2. 2+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Troy Johnston vs Christian Roa
  3. 3+0.21▼3 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Kyle Karros vs Enyel De Los Santos

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Cam Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.