Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-11
HOU @ TB
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, HOU
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 115 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 105 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▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Richie Palacios vs Ethan Pecko - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Christian Walker vs Drew Rasmussen - 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Christian Walker vs Drew Rasmussen
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Richie Palacios — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.