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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30

SF @ PHI

Home plate: David Rackley

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, PHI
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 185 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 173 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: Garrett Stubbs — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jung Hoo Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jung Hoo Lee — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Eric Haase — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Schwarber vs Adrian Houser
  2. 2-0.30▼5 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Adolis García vs Ryan Borucki
  3. 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jung Hoo Lee vs Tim Mayza

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Garrett Stubbs — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Jung Hoo Lee — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.