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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-12

CLE @ ATL

Home plate: John Tumpane

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.6% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CLE
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Jorge Mateo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: David Fry — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Chase DeLauter vs Chris Sale
  2. 2-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Austin Riley vs Tanner Bibee
  3. 3+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Drake Baldwin vs Tanner Bibee

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jorge Mateo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3David Fry — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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