Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-04
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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▲2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
J.T. Realmuto vs Jimmy Herget - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Kyle Schwarber vs Brennan Bernardino - 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Troy Johnston vs Jesús Luzardo
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.
- 1J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ezequiel Tovar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jesús Luzardo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.