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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-15

CHC @ PHI

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

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

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CHC
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Seiya Suzuki vs Dylan Moore
  2. 2-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Ian Happ vs Jesús Luzardo
  3. 3+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Matt Shaw vs Jesús Luzardo

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.

  1. 1Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Seiya Suzuki — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.