Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-15
TEX @ ATH
Home plate: Edwin Jimenez
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TEX
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Brandon Nimmo vs J.T. Ginn - 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Nick Kurtz vs Kumar Rocker - 3-0.28▲2 · 1-2 ball called strike
Joc Pederson vs J.T. Ginn
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.