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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-22

TB @ NYY

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, NYY
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▼9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Trent Grisham vs Bryan Baker
  2. 2+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Ian Seymour
  3. 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jonathan Aranda vs Gerrit Cole

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.