Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-10
SEA @ TB
Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“The zone stretched its legs.”
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 105 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
J.P. Crawford vs Nick Martinez - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Buddy Kennedy vs Nick Martinez - 3+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Taylor Walls vs Nick Davila
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.