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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-21

ATH @ LAA

Home plate: David Rackley

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, ATH
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Sebastián Rivero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Vaughn Grissom — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲10 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Henry Bolte vs Ryan Zeferjahn
  2. 2-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Carlos Cortes vs José Soriano
  3. 3+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Lawrence Butler vs José Soriano

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.