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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-31

SF @ COL

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, COL
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 188 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 175 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: Willi Castro — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Rafael Devers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Braxton Fulford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲9 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Rafael Devers vs Brett Sullivan
  2. 2+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Troy Johnston vs Robbie Ray
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Ezequiel Tovar vs Tristan Beck

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. 1Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Rafael Devers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Braxton Fulford — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.