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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-08

NYY @ CLE

Home plate: Nate Tomlinson

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 218 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 205 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: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brayan Rocchio — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Max Schuemann — 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. 1-0.69▲2 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Spencer Jones vs Gavin Williams
  2. 2+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball
    David Fry vs Brent Headrick
  3. 3-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    José Ramírez vs Ryan Yarbrough

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. 1J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Max Schuemann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.