Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
Umpire Grade
89.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SD
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Jen Pawol called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Gavin Sheets vs Kevin Gausman - 2+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Cronenworth vs Kevin Gausman - 3+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ty France vs Kevin Gausman
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.