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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-24

PIT @ MIL

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, PIT
4
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Henry Davis — 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. 1-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Sal Frelick vs Paul Skenes
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Marcell Ozuna vs Brandon Woodruff
  3. 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jake Bauers vs Paul Skenes

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

  1. 1Ryan O'Hearn — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Ryan O'Hearn — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.