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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-23

STL @ CIN

Home plate: John Tumpane

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B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CIN
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 182 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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: P.J. Higgins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: P.J. Higgins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
    JJ Wetherholt vs Chase Petty
  2. 2+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball
    JJ Bleday vs JoJo Romero
  3. 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Elly De La Cruz vs Kyle Leahy

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1P.J. Higgins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4P.J. Higgins — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.