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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-25

KC @ TB

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Victor Mesa Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Junior Caminero — 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. 1-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Carter Jensen vs Casey Legumina
  2. 2+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Isaac Collins vs Ian Seymour
  3. 3-0.13▼8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Taylor Walls vs Tyler Tolbert

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Junior Caminero — 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.