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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-24

CHC @ NYM

Home plate: Austin Jones

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYM
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Pete Crow-Armstrong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Marcus Semien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼3 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Luis Torrens vs Javier Assad
  2. 2-0.28▲1 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Nolan McLean
  3. 3-0.23▲1 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Nolan McLean

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.