Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-27
COL @ CWS
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”
Umpire Grade
99.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
ABS Overturns
of 0 reviewed
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 108 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 107 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 strike
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Hunter Goodman vs Anthony Kay
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
No pitches were challenged in this game.