Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-17
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
Umpire Grade
89.8% 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 149 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 - 2-0.20▼7 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Brady House vs Matt Gage - 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Heliot Ramos vs Paxton Schultz
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Brady House — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.