Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-21
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIA
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 131 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▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jakob Marsee vs Brad Lord - 2-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
José Tena vs Pete Fairbanks - 3+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jakob Marsee vs Will Dion
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.
- 1Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Abimelec Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 7Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.