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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-19

TOR @ NYY

Home plate: John Tumpane

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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: Aaron Judge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kazuma Okamoto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Aaron Judge vs Dylan Cease
  2. 2+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Davis Schneider vs Tim Hill
  3. 3+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Chase Lee

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Aaron Judge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Kazuma Okamoto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.