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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

MIL @ HOU

Home plate: James Jean

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, MIL
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 177 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: César Salazar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: César Salazar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Jackson Chourio vs Kai-Wei Teng
  2. 2+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    César Salazar vs Grant Anderson
  3. 3+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Coleman Crow

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

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

  1. 1César Salazar — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2César Salazar — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.