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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

LAD @ SD

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, LAD
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 157 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: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Miguel Andujar — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Shohei Ohtani vs Randy Vásquez
  2. 2-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Hyeseong Kim vs Ron Marinaccio
  3. 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Freddy Fermin vs Shohei Ohtani

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Miguel Andujar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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