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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-18

LAD @ SD

Home plate: Nate Tomlinson

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, SD
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Rodolfo Durán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Rodolfo Durán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Tucker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Freddie Freeman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Rodolfo Durán — 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. 1-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Ramón Laureano vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  2. 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Kyle Tucker vs Michael King
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Shohei Ohtani vs Michael King

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. 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Freddie Freeman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.