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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

CWS @ TOR

Home plate: Tom Hanahan

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TOR
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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: Daulton Varsho — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Brandon Valenzuela vs Bryan Hudson
  2. 2+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Sean Keys vs Sean Burke
  3. 3-0.13▼9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Ernie Clement vs Grant Taylor

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

  1. 1Daulton Varsho — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.