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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-10

LAA @ MIN

Home plate: Brian O'Nora

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, MIN
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Brian O'Nora called the 139 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: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brooks Lee — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Trevor Larnach — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Tyler Heineman — 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+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Trevor Larnach vs Samy Natera Jr.
  2. 2+0.10▼6 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Austin Martin vs Samy Natera Jr.
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Nolan Schanuel vs Zebby Matthews

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. 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Brooks Lee — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Trevor Larnach — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.