Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-13
“This one went to video review more than most.”
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
- 1-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Ryan McMahon vs Eduard Bazardo - 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ryan McMahon vs Eduard Bazardo - 3-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Randy Arozarena vs Max Fried
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jhonny Pereda — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jhonny Pereda — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Jhonny Pereda — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Jhonny Pereda — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 7Heliot Ramos — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.