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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-10

LAA @ CIN

Home plate: James Jean

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, CIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 174 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Jo Adell vs Connor Phillips
  2. 2+0.21▲2 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Yoán Moncada vs Chase Burns
  3. 3-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Mike Trout vs Kyle Nicolas

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.