Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01
NYM @ SEA
Home plate: Jeremie Rehak
“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Randy Arozarena vs Sean Manaea - 2-0.23▼6 · 0-2 ball called strike
J.P. Crawford vs Sean Manaea - 3+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Carson Benge vs Emerson Hancock
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Victor Robles — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Juan Soto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.