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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-31

TOR @ BAL

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, BAL
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Blaze Alexander — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Samuel Basallo vs Spencer Miles
  2. 2+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Andrés Giménez vs Kyle Bradish
  3. 3+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Blaze Alexander vs Yariel Rodríguez

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Andrés Giménez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Blaze Alexander — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.