Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-05
“Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.”
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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 ball called strike
Alex Call vs Cade Cavalli - 2-0.39▲4 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Tyler Glasnow - 3-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike
José Tena vs Tyler Glasnow
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cade Cavalli — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 7Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.