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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-26

ATH @ TEX

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, ATH
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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: Andrew McCutchen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — 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+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Tyler Soderstrom vs Kumar Rocker
  2. 2+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Brent Rooker vs Kumar Rocker
  3. 3+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Carlos Cortes vs Kumar Rocker

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

  1. 1Andrew McCutchen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — 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.