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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-17

NYM @ CHC

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CHC
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike
    MJ Melendez vs Edward Cabrera
  2. 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Dansby Swanson vs Sean Manaea
  3. 3+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Dansby Swanson vs Sean Manaea

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

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

  1. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.