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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-11

SEA @ BAL

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, BAL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jhonny Pereda — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Jackson Holliday vs Alex Hoppe
  2. 2-0.10▲5 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Randy Arozarena vs Tyler Wells
  3. 3+0.10▲6 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Miles Mastrobuoni vs Tyler Wells

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.