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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-22

CWS @ KC

Home plate: Adam Hamari

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CWS
5
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Kyle Teel vs Daniel Lynch IV
  2. 2+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Tommy Pham vs Daniel Lynch IV
  3. 3+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Andrew Benintendi vs Tony Gonsolin

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  9. 9Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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