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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

TOR @ MIN

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TOR
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Davis Schneider — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Davis Schneider — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Myles Straw — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Davis Schneider vs Connor Prielipp
  2. 2-0.23▼1 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Josh Bell vs Dylan Cease
  3. 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Matt Wallner vs Dylan Cease

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

  1. 1Davis Schneider — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Davis Schneider — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Myles Straw — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.