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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

NYM @ LAA

Home plate: John Tumpane

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, NYM
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Nolan Schanuel vs Nolan McLean
  2. 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Mark Vientos vs Sam Bachman
  3. 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Jorge Soler vs Nolan McLean

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Travis d'Arnaud — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.