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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-28

TOR @ BAL

Home plate: Tyler Jones

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

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Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, TOR
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Adley Rutschman — 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. 1-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Leody Taveras vs Jeff Hoffman
  2. 2+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Yohendrick Piñango vs Anthony Nunez
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Chris Bassitt

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Adley Rutschman — 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.