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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

CWS @ BAL

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, BAL
7
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Sean Burke — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jackson Holliday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Randal Grichuk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Randal Grichuk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Colton Cowser vs Sean Burke
  2. 2+0.28▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Blaze Alexander vs Brandon Eisert
  3. 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Tristan Peters vs Shane Baz

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Sean Burke — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Jackson Holliday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Randal Grichuk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Randal Grichuk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 8 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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