Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-09
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
Umpire Grade
89.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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
- 1-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jimmy Crooks vs Freddy Peralta - 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Alec Burleson vs Freddy Peralta - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Nathan Church vs Freddy Peralta
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2JJ Wetherholt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.