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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

BAL @ PIT

Home plate: James Jean

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, BAL
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Henry Davis — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Bryan Reynolds — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Dylan Beavers vs Braxton Ashcraft
  2. 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Spencer Horwitz vs Cade Povich
  3. 3+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jeremiah Jackson vs Mason Montgomery

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.