Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
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 125 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+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Shohei Ohtani vs Reid Detmers - 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Logan O'Hoppe vs Edgardo Henriquez - 3+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach Neto vs Edgardo Henriquez
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.