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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-29

MIA @ LAD

Home plate: Austin Jones

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A+
Umpire Grade
98.0% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, MIA
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Andy Pages — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alex Call — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Esteury Ruiz vs Tyler Glasnow
  2. 2+0.13▲7 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Graham Pauley vs Will Klein
  3. 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Graham Pauley vs Tyler Glasnow

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Alex Call — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.