Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-22
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAA
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Jen Pawol called the 116 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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
- 1-0.13▼7 · 1-1 ball called strike
Brandon Nimmo vs Ryan Johnson - 2+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Denzer Guzman vs Cody Bradford - 3+0.09▲5 · 0-0 strike called ball
Travis d'Arnaud vs Cody Bradford
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Zach Neto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Adam Frazier — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.