Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-10
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
Umpire Grade
90.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Corey Seager vs Logan Gilbert - 2+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Robby Ahlstrom - 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Wyatt Langford vs Logan Gilbert
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Lazaro Montes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.