Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-04
SEA @ LAA
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
89.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 105 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+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Jack Kochanowicz - 2+0.21▲3 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Josh Naylor vs Jack Kochanowicz - 3+0.19▲9 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
J.P. Crawford vs Jordan Romano
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.