Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08
SEA @ CWS
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
J.P. Crawford vs Sean Burke - 2-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Sam Antonacci vs Emerson Hancock - 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Luke Raley vs Tyler Davis
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.