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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

TEX @ NYY

Home plate: Paul Clemons

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Corey Seager — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Tyler Alexander
  2. 2+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Jake Burger vs Elmer Rodríguez
  3. 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Cody Bellinger vs Jacob deGrom

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

  1. 1Corey Seager — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Danny Jansen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Danny Jansen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.