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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-10

DET @ KC

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, DET
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 177 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Lane Thomas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Riley Greene — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Dillon Dingler — 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. 1-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Spencer Torkelson vs Alex Lange
  2. 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Dillon Dingler vs Steven Cruz
  3. 3-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Starling Marte vs Kenley Jansen

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. 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Lane Thomas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Riley Greene — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.