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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-24

LAA @ SEA

Home plate: Rob Drake

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SEA
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Cole Young — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Zach Neto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Zach Neto vs Cooper Criswell
  2. 2-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Cole Young vs Grayson Rodriguez
  3. 3-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Leo Rivas vs Grayson Rodriguez

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

  1. 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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

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