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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-27

LAA @ HOU

Home plate: John Tumpane

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, LAA
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Roddery Muñoz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jo Adell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Nolan Schanuel vs Roddery Muñoz
  2. 2-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Isaac Paredes vs Ryan Zeferjahn
  3. 3+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Brice Matthews vs Yusei Kikuchi

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Roddery Muñoz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Jo Adell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.