Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-15
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
Run Favor
even
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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+0.10▲6 · 0-1 strike called ball
Brice Turang vs Joe Ryan - 2+0.10▼9 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kody Clemens vs Trevor Megill - 3+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brooks Lee vs Coleman Crow
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.