Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-31
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Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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
- 1-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Luis Gil - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Blake Weiman - 3+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Christian Moore vs David Bednar
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 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 strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.