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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-03

TOR @ SEA

Home plate: Paul Clemons

“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Randy Arozarena — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Randy Arozarena — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Dominic Canzone vs Dylan Cease
  2. 2+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Nathan Lukes vs José A. Ferrer
  3. 3-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs José A. Ferrer

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. 1Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.