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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

SEA @ TB

Home plate: Derek Thomas

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Cole Young — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Junior Caminero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Mesa Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Richie Palacios vs Nick Davila
  2. 2+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Cedric Mullins vs Gabe Speier
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    J.P. Crawford vs Ian Seymour

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. 1Cole Young — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.