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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03

MIA @ NYY

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIA
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ben Rice — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Otto Lopez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Cody Bellinger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼1 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Ben Rice vs Eury Pérez
  2. 2+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Otto Lopez vs Will Warren
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Trent Grisham vs Eury Pérez

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Otto Lopez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Cody Bellinger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.