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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-09

TEX @ KC

Home plate: James Jean

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.7% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, TEX
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Maikel Garcia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Higashioka — 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+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Corey Seager vs Stephen Kolek
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Bobby Witt Jr. vs Nathan Eovaldi
  3. 3-0.09▼4 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Nathan Eovaldi

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.

  1. 1Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Higashioka — 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.