Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14
“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”
Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 113 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 108 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Victor Robles vs Miles Mikolas - 2-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Cole Young vs Miles Mikolas - 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jhonny Pereda vs Miles Mikolas
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.
- 1Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.