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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

TOR @ ATL

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Austin Riley vs Yariel Rodríguez
  2. 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Michael Harris II vs Adam Macko
  3. 3-0.13▼3 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Austin Riley vs Patrick Corbin

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

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

  1. 1Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.