Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-17
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, WSH
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Jen Pawol called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert vs PJ Poulin - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Heliot Ramos vs Paxton Schultz - 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Heliot Ramos vs Richard Lovelady
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.
- 1Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Brady House — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — 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.