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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-13

PHI @ MIL

Home plate: James Jean

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, PHI
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Derek Hill — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (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
    Christian Yelich vs Aaron Nola
  2. 2+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Edmundo Sosa vs Shane Drohan
  3. 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    J.T. Realmuto vs Shane Drohan

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Derek Hill — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.