Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TOR
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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
- 1-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Heliot Ramos vs Patrick Corbin - 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Luis Arraez vs Spencer Miles - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Nathan Lukes vs Adrian Houser
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jung Hoo Lee — 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.