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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-15

CWS @ CLE

Home plate: David Rackley

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, CLE
7
ABS Overturns
of 10 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 179 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

Challenge 1: Chase Meidroth — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Brayan Rocchio — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Braden Montgomery — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9Challenge 10: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).10
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Steven Kwan vs Davis Martin
  2. 2-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Chase Meidroth vs Foster Griffin
  3. 3+0.13▼9 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Patrick Bailey vs Grant Taylor

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

10 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Chase Meidroth — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Braden Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  9. 9Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  10. 10Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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