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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-04

TOR @ TB

Home plate: David Rackley

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jesús Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Jonny DeLuca vs Spencer Miles
  2. 2+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Kazuma Okamoto vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Ryan Vilade vs Eric Lauer

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jesús Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.