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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30

COL @ CIN

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

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Umpire Grade
96.9% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Troy Johnston — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Dane Myers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Tyler Freeman vs Andrew Abbott
  2. 2-0.13▼5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Matt McLain vs Michael Lorenzen
  3. 3-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Nathaniel Lowe vs Michael Lorenzen

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.

  1. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Troy Johnston — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Dane Myers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.