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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-26

SEA @ ATH

Home plate: Nate Tomlinson

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, SEA
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Julio Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Carlos Cortes vs Emerson Hancock
  2. 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Shea Langeliers vs Emerson Hancock
  3. 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Shea Langeliers vs Emerson Hancock

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

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

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Julio Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.