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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-21

MIL @ DET

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 206 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 187 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Sal Frelick vs Enmanuel De Jesus
  2. 2-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Blake Perkins vs Enmanuel De Jesus
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Brice Turang vs Keider Montero

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. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.