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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.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.3
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 145 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Randal Grichuk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (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+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Randal Grichuk vs Shane Baz
  3. 3+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Sam Antonacci 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Randal Grichuk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.