Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19
MIN @ CHC
Home plate: James Jean
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
90.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CHC
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how James Jean called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Zebby Matthews - 2-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Ryan Jeffers vs Shota Imanaga - 3-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Carson Kelly vs Kody Funderburk
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 7Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.