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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-13

LAA @ WSH

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, WSH
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 151 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. 140 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.5*Challenge 6: Abimelec Ortiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.8*
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+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Dylan Crews vs Luke Murphy
  2. 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    José Tena vs Grayson Rodriguez
  3. 3+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Mike Trout vs Jake Irvin

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

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

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Abimelec Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 8 — 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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