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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05

LAA @ LAD

Home plate: Jen Pawol

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

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Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, LAD
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Jen Pawol called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Logan O'Hoppe vs Edgardo Henriquez
  2. 2+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Freddie Freeman vs Reid Detmers
  3. 3-0.10▼4 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Freddie Freeman vs Reid Detmers

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. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.