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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-07

TB @ BOS

Home plate: Tyler Jones

“The zone kept its promises.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, BOS
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Connor Wong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Jonathan Aranda vs Jake Bennett
  2. 2+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Ben Williamson vs Jake Bennett
  3. 3+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Jonny DeLuca vs Jake Bennett

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. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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