Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13
SF @ LAD
Home plate: James Jean
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
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 127 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Andy Pages vs Tristan Beck - 2+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jung Hoo Lee vs Shohei Ohtani - 3+0.10▲7 · 0-1 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.