Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-08
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, STL
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Jen Pawol called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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
- 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Garrett Mitchell vs Riley O'Brien - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Nelson Velázquez vs Kyle Harrison - 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Christian Yelich vs Michael McGreevy
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nelson Velázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.