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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05

MIL @ COL

Home plate: Rob Drake

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, MIL
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 193 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 181 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Sal Frelick — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Chad Stevens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jake McCarthy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Sal Frelick vs Ryan Feltner
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Sal Frelick vs Ryan Feltner
  3. 3-0.20▼10 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jake McCarthy vs Aaron Ashby

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Sal Frelick — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Chad Stevens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Jake McCarthy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.