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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-25

ATH @ TEX

Home plate: Austin Jones

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, ATH
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Darell Hernaiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Nick Kurtz vs MacKenzie Gore
  2. 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Brandon Nimmo vs Jeffrey Springs
  3. 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Darell Hernaiz vs MacKenzie Gore

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Darell Hernaiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.