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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-02

NYM @ TB

Home plate: John Tumpane

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

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TB
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Marcus Semien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Victor Mesa Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: A.J. Ewing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.192 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Liam Hicks vs Justin Hagenman
  2. 2-0.193 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged
    Marcus Semien vs Griffin Jax
  3. 3+0.194 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Chandler Simpson vs Chris Devenski

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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