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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07

CHC @ BAL

Home plate: Ramon De Jesus

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, BAL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Leody Taveras — 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+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Coby Mayo vs Matthew Boyd
  2. 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Blaze Alexander vs Matthew Boyd
  3. 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Shane Baz

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

  1. 1Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.