Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14
MIA @ MIN
Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
92.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Xavier Edwards vs Kendry Rojas - 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Anthony Bender - 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Jakob Marsee vs Zebby Matthews
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.