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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-06

NYY @ TB

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, NYY
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: José Caballero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Griffin Jax
  2. 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Trent Grisham vs Chris Roycroft
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Ben Rice vs Griffin Jax

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

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.