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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-24

MIL @ CIN

Home plate: Adam Hamari

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

A
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 195 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 186 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: Eugenio Suárez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Blake Dunn — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: William Contreras — 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+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Noelvi Marte vs Shane Drohan
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Christian Yelich vs Rhett Lowder
  3. 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    David Hamilton vs Rhett Lowder

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Eugenio Suárez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Blake Dunn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3William Contreras — 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.