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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

MIL @ STL

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: Jake Bauers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jackson Chourio vs Andre Pallante
  2. 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Joey Ortiz vs Andre Pallante
  3. 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Iván Herrera vs Logan Henderson

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. 1Jake Bauers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.