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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-18

CLE @ DET

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CLE
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Hedges — 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+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Austin Hedges vs Connor Seabold
  2. 2-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Steven Kwan vs Brant Hurter
  3. 3-0.21▼9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Kevin McGonigle vs Peyton Pallette

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. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Hedges — 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.