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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-17

PIT @ ATH

Home plate: David Rackley

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, ATH
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bryan Reynolds — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Henry Davis vs Scott Barlow
  2. 2-0.21▲9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Spencer Horwitz vs Luis Medina
  3. 3-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jake Mangum vs Luis Medina

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.