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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-26

TEX @ MIN

Home plate: David Rackley

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIN
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how David Rackley called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nathan Eovaldi — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Evan Carter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Cody Freeman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Brooks Lee vs Nathan Eovaldi
  2. 2+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Ezequiel Duran vs Travis Adams
  3. 3+0.21▲2 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Danny Jansen vs Bailey Ober

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nathan Eovaldi — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Cody Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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