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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-15

TB @ CWS

Home plate: Adam Hamari

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Reese McGuire — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jonathan Aranda — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Hunter Feduccia — 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+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Junior Caminero vs Tyler Gilbert
  2. 2+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Sean Burke
  3. 3-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Richie Palacios vs Sean Burke

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. 1Reese McGuire — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.