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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-19

BAL @ CLE

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, BAL
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: David Fry — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Pete Alonso — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jeremiah Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Gunnar Henderson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲4 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Pete Alonso vs Joey Cantillo
  2. 2-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Jeremiah Jackson vs Erik Sabrowski
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Rhys Hoskins vs Cameron Foster

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3David Fry — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Jeremiah Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Colton Cowser — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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