Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01
DET @ AZ
Home plate: Adam Hamari
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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 strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Matt Vierling vs Zac Gallen - 2+0.19▼8 · 2-0 strike called ball
Ketel Marte vs Kyle Finnegan - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Dillon Dingler vs Zac Gallen
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Matt Vierling — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.