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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-14

TOR @ MIL

Home plate: David Rackley

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIL
0
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼10 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Gary Sánchez vs Louis Varland
  2. 2+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Gary Sánchez vs Kevin Gausman
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Kazuma Okamoto vs Trevor Megill

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 5 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.