Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
89.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 164 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Mookie Betts vs Cam Schlittler - 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cody Bellinger vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 3+0.19▲8 · 2-0 strike called ball
Dalton Rushing vs Jake Bird
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jasson Domínguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.