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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

CWS @ AZ

Home plate: Jeremie Rehak

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, AZ
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 212 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 202 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: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: James McCann — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jose Fernandez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: James McCann — 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+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs Juan Morillo
  2. 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    James McCann vs Bryan Hudson
  3. 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami vs Eduardo Rodriguez

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Jose Fernandez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7James McCann — 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.