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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-07

ATH @ NYY

Home plate: Bruce Dreckman

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.1% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, ATH
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Lawrence Butler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Aaron Judge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Brent Rooker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Lawrence Butler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Jazz Chisholm Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Austin Wells vs Aaron Civale
  2. 2+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Brent Rooker vs Fernando Cruz
  3. 3+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Justin Sterner

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. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Lawrence Butler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Aaron Judge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Brent Rooker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.