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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

TOR @ TB

Home plate: Chris Guccione

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Brandon Valenzuela vs Drew Rasmussen
  2. 2+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Yandy Díaz vs Kevin Gausman
  3. 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Andrés Giménez vs Hunter Bigge

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.