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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-11

HOU @ SEA

Home plate: Adam Hamari

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, SEA
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Cam Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Taylor Trammell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Cole Young vs Kai-Wei Teng
  2. 2+0.13▲5 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Carlos Correa vs Casey Legumina
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Luke Raley vs Lance McCullers Jr.

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.