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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30

CWS @ MIA

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, MIA
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Jakob Marsee vs Davis Martin
  2. 2-0.28▼9 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Jakob Marsee vs Jordan Hicks
  3. 3+0.21▼3 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Griffin Conine vs Davis Martin

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.