Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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
- 1-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Nolan Arenado vs Emmet Sheehan - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Miguel Rojas vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.