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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

LAD @ NYY

Home plate: Rob Drake

“The zone had wings tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jasson Domínguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.19▲8 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Dalton Rushing vs Jake Bird
  2. 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Mookie Betts vs Jake Bird
  3. 3+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Dalton Rushing vs Camilo Doval

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jasson Domínguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.