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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

SF @ COL

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SF
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 147 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: Heliot Ramos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Heliot Ramos vs Tanner Gordon
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Hunter Goodman vs Tyler Mahle
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Willy Adames vs Tanner Gordon

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Heliot Ramos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.