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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-10

AZ @ LAD

Home plate: Austin Jones

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

A
Umpire Grade
96.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, AZ
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Kyle Tucker vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  2. 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Teoscar Hernández vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Tim Tawa vs Brock Stewart

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

  1. 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.