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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13

SF @ LAD

Home plate: James Jean

A steady night's work behind the plate.

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SF
1
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.138 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Andy Pages vs Tristan Beck
  2. 2+0.101 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Jung Hoo Lee vs Shohei Ohtani
  3. 3+0.106 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Rafael Devers vs Shohei Ohtani

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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