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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08

ATH @ BAL

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“Borderline went to the battery all night.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, BAL
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carlos Cortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jeff McNeil — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Pete Alonso — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Dylan Beavers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Dylan Beavers vs Jack Perkins
  2. 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Tyler Soderstrom vs Kyle Bradish
  3. 3-0.21▲2 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Jacob Wilson vs Kyle Bradish

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

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

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Carlos Cortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jeff McNeil — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Dylan Beavers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.