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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-23

TEX @ LAA

Home plate: D.J. Reyburn

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, TEX
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sebastián Rivero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jose Siri — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Walbert Ureña
  2. 2-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Evan Carter vs José Fermin
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Walbert Ureña

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Sebastián Rivero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jose Siri — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.