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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-25

CIN @ STL

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A+
Umpire Grade
99.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.09▲7 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Tyler Stephenson vs Andre Pallante

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

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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

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