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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-30

CHC @ STL

Home plate: Edwin Jimenez

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

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Umpire Grade
89.6% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, STL
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jordan Walker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Alex Bregman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jimmy Crooks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Kyle Leahy
  2. 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Alex Bregman vs Matt Pushard
  3. 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Dansby Swanson vs Kyle Leahy

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

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

  1. 1Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Jimmy Crooks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.