Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-23
“This one went to video review more than most.”
Umpire Grade
89.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Tucker vs Blade Tidwell - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Hyeseong Kim vs Logan Webb - 3-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Patrick Bailey vs Tyler Glasnow
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Alex Freeland — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Tyler Glasnow — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.