Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-03
“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIL
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Sal Frelick vs Zack Littell - 2-0.10▲2 · 0-1 ball called strike
David Hamilton vs PJ Poulin - 3-0.10▼5 · 0-1 ball called strike
José Tena vs Logan Henderson
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.
- 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gary Sánchez — 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.