Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03
SEA @ LAA
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAA
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
Logan O'Hoppe vs Bryan Woo - 2-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Cal Raleigh vs Reid Detmers - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Cole Young vs Reid Detmers
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 5 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 7Yoán Moncada — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.