Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-06
COL @ LAD
Home plate: Dan Iassogna
“Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.”
Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how Dan Iassogna called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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
- 1-0.23▲1 · 0-2 ball called strike
Willi Castro vs Eric Lauer - 2-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Andy Pages vs Kyle Freeland - 3-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Mookie Betts vs Kyle Freeland
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kyle Karros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Freddie Freeman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 7Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.