Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-22
TOR @ NYY
Home plate: Dan Iassogna
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TOR
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed
What this shows — how Dan Iassogna called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brett Bateman vs Yerry De los Santos - 2+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Brett Bateman vs Yerry De los Santos - 3-0.39▼9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
Austin Wells vs Louis Varland
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
8 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Heliot Ramos — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brett Bateman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Luis García Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6George Lombard Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 7Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 8Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.