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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-26

STL @ MIL

Home plate: Adam Hamari

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

A
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIL
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Abner Uribe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Alec Burleson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Bryan Torres vs Kyle Harrison
  2. 2-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Masyn Winn vs Kyle Harrison
  3. 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Christian Yelich vs Michael McGreevy

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

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Abner Uribe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Alec Burleson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.