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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-28

NYY @ BOS

Home plate: Adam Hamari

“The zone kept its promises.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, BOS
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Ceddanne Rafaela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Connor Wong — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jasson Domínguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Anthony Seigler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲4 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Jasson Domínguez vs Sonny Gray
  2. 2+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Cody Bellinger vs Aroldis Chapman
  3. 3+0.13▼9 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Caleb Durbin vs David Bednar

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jasson Domínguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Anthony Seigler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.