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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

KC @ TEX

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jake Burger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Nick Loftin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Danny Jansen vs Steven Cruz
  2. 2-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Josh Jung vs Eli Morgan
  3. 3+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Maikel Garcia vs Gavin Collyer

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

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

  1. 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Nick Loftin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.