Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-17
NYY @ NYM
Home plate: Jeremie Rehak
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 189 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 180 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+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Freddy Peralta - 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
A.J. Ewing vs Ryan Yarbrough - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Freddy Peralta
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Freddy Peralta — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2J.C. Escarra — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Max Schuemann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Mark Vientos — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.