Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-29
NYY @ TEX
Home plate: Tyler Jones
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TEX
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Nathan Eovaldi - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Corey Seager vs Brent Headrick - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Higashioka vs Fernando Cruz
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cody Bellinger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Josh Jung — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Corey Seager — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.