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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

NYY @ BOS

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, BOS
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Connor Wong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲7 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Eduardo Rivera
  2. 2-0.23▲6 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Ben Rice vs Zack Kelly
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Aaron Judge vs Eduardo Rivera

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

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.