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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

STL @ AZ

Home plate: Tyler Jones

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

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, AZ
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 193 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: Alec Burleson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (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: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Nolan Arenado — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jorge Barrosa vs Luis Gastelum
  2. 2-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    JJ Wetherholt vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    José Fermín vs Drey Jameson

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Alec Burleson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Nolan Arenado — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.