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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

LAA @ SEA

Home plate: Chris Guccione

“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SEA
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jose Siri — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Cole Young vs Ryan Johnson
  2. 2+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Cal Raleigh vs Mitch Farris
  3. 3+0.09▼2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Josh Naylor vs Ryan Johnson

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

  1. 1Wade Meckler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Jose Siri — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.