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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-13

CHC @ PHI

Home plate: Nate Tomlinson

“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
1.5
Run Favor
runs, PHI
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 182 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Brandon Marsh vs Javier Assad
  2. 2-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Nico Hoerner vs Cristopher Sánchez
  3. 3+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Bryce Harper vs Charlie Barnes

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

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

  1. 1Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.