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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-06

CIN @ CHC

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CIN
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 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: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Michael Busch — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Michael Busch vs Graham Ashcraft
  2. 2+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
    TJ Friedl vs Colin Rea
  3. 3-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Brady Singer

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

  1. 1JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Michael Busch — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.