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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-08

HOU @ LAA

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, HOU
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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: Wade Meckler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Enyel De Los Santos — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Grayson Rodriguez
  2. 2+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jeremy Peña vs Grayson Rodriguez
  3. 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Jose Altuve vs Grayson Rodriguez

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

  1. 1Wade Meckler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Enyel De Los Santos — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.