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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01

LAD @ AZ

Home plate: Rob Drake

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, LAD
3
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 120 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: Miguel Rojas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Miguel Rojas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Miguel Rojas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Kyle Tucker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Miguel Rojas vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  2. 2-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Nolan Arenado vs Emmet Sheehan
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Miguel Rojas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Miguel Rojas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.