Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIL
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 179 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Sal Frelick vs Ryan Feltner - 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Sal Frelick vs Ryan Feltner - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Sal Frelick — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Chad Stevens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jake McCarthy — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.