Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-16
WSH @ PIT
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PIT
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Nasim Nuñez vs Isaac Mattson - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Billy Cook vs Foster Griffin - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Marcell Ozuna vs Foster Griffin
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Marcell Ozuna — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Konnor Griffin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Clayton Beeter — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.