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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-19

CWS @ DET

Home plate: Rob Drake

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, DET
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Randal Grichuk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Kevin McGonigle vs Brandon Eisert
  2. 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Braden Montgomery vs Will Vest
  3. 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Edgar Quero vs Tarik Skubal

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Randal Grichuk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.