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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-18

TEX @ COL

Home plate: Adam Hamari

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, COL
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: TJ Rumfield — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Ezequiel Tovar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Willi Castro — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Joc Pederson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Jake Burger vs Victor Vodnik
  2. 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Sam Haggerty vs Jose Quintana
  3. 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    TJ Rumfield vs MacKenzie Gore

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1TJ Rumfield — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Ezequiel Tovar — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Willi Castro — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Joc Pederson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Justin Foscue — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.