Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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
- 1-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Dalton Rushing vs Brandon Pfaadt - 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Max Kepler vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 3+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Kyle Tucker vs Brandyn Garcia
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Andy Pages — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.