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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-04

CIN @ TEX

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, TEX
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼9 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Josh Smith vs Emilio Pagán
  2. 2+0.20▼9 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Josh Smith vs Emilio Pagán
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jose Trevino vs Jalen Beeks

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.