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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-24

CWS @ KC

Home plate: Todd Tichenor

“This one went to video review more than most.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, KC
6
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 162 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Kyle Teel vs Jose Cuas
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Tristan Peters vs Anthony Gose
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Chase Meidroth vs Randy Dobnak

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 · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 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 strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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