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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-21

WSH @ MIA

Home plate: Rob Drake

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, MIA
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Nasim Nuñez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Abimelec Ortiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Joe Mack — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Joe Mack — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Xavier Edwards — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
    José Tena vs Pete Fairbanks
  2. 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Jakob Marsee vs Will Dion
  3. 3+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Jacob Young vs Pete Fairbanks

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Abimelec Ortiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Xavier Edwards — 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.

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