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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

NYY @ WSH

Home plate: David Rackley

“Corner-to-corner and then some.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.7% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ben Rice — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Ben Rice — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Dylan Crews vs Paul Blackburn
  2. 2+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Abimelec Ortiz vs Will Warren
  3. 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    José Caballero vs Cade Cavalli

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Ben Rice — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.