Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-19
SD @ TEX
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TEX
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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
- 1-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Rodolfo Durán vs Jacob deGrom - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Xander Bogaerts vs Jacob deGrom - 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Brandon Nimmo vs Yuki Matsui
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.