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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-06

TOR @ SF

Home plate: Austin Jones

“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, SF
0
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jung Hoo Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Bryce Eldridge — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — 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+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Rafael Devers vs Kevin Gausman
  2. 2-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Landen Roupp
  3. 3-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Bryce Eldridge vs Kevin Gausman

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — 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.