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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30

DET @ AZ

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, AZ
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 197 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Spencer Torkelson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Carlos Santana vs Justin Verlander
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Geraldo Perdomo vs Justin Verlander
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Carlos Santana vs Enmanuel De Jesus

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.