Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-09
AZ @ MIA
Home plate: Edwin Jimenez
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, AZ
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 184 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball
Tommy Troy vs Michael Petersen - 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Joe Mack vs Zac Gallen - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Xavier Edwards vs Zac Gallen
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.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.