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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-17

SD @ STL

Home plate: James Jean

“The zone had wings tonight.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 139 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: Manny Machado — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Pedro Pagés — 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. 1-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Masyn Winn vs Griffin Canning
  2. 2-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Xander Bogaerts vs Chris Roycroft
  3. 3-0.13▼5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Blaze Jordan vs Griffin Canning

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Manny Machado — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Pedro Pagés — 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.