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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11

HOU @ TEX

Home plate: Ramon De Jesus

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TEX
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Isaac Paredes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Cam Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Nick Allen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Jose Altuve vs Kumar Rocker
  2. 2-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Isaac Paredes vs Gavin Collyer
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Peter Lambert

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Isaac Paredes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Cam Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Nick Allen — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.