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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-08

BOS @ CWS

Home plate: David Rackley

“Corner-to-corner and then some.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Caleb Durbin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Romy Gonzalez vs Trevor Richards
  2. 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Braden Montgomery vs Jake Bennett
  3. 3-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Colson Montgomery vs Jake Bennett

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Caleb Durbin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.