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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30

HOU @ BAL

Home plate: Rob Drake

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, HOU
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Blaze Alexander — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Dylan Beavers vs Peter Lambert
  2. 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Pete Alonso vs Peter Lambert
  3. 3-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Yainer Diaz vs Chris Bassitt

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jose Altuve — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Blaze Alexander — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.