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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-22

COL @ AZ

Home plate: Nate Tomlinson

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.1% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, AZ
1
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Tyler Freeman vs Juan Morillo
  2. 2+0.13▼7 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Ketel Marte vs Brennan Bernardino
  3. 3+0.09▼5 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Ketel Marte vs Tomoyuki Sugano

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.