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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-01

KC @ SEA

Home plate: Adam Hamari

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, SEA
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Leo Rivas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Randy Arozarena — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Maikel Garcia vs Cole Wilcox
  2. 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Bryan Woo
  3. 3-0.10▲1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Maikel Garcia vs Bryan Woo

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

  1. 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Leo Rivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.