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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-04

MIL @ STL

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

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Umpire Grade
88.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, MIL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Andrew Vaughn vs Kyle Leahy
  2. 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Sal Frelick vs Kyle Leahy
  3. 3-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jordan Walker vs Chad Patrick

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 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. 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.