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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

SEA @ LAA

Home plate: Adrian Johnson

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, LAA
7
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 198 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 183 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: Cole Young — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Luke Raley — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Jorge Soler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Jorge Soler vs Cole Wilcox
  2. 2-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Cole Young vs George Klassen
  3. 3-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Randy Arozarena vs Brent Suter

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Luke Raley — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  9. 9Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 9 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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