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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

CWS @ TOR

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TOR
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 110 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Daulton Varsho — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.6*Challenge 7: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jonatan Clase vs Sean Burke
  2. 2-0.23▼8 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Brandon Valenzuela vs Bryan Hudson
  3. 3+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Sean Keys vs Sean Burke

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.

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