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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-29

MIL @ SF

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, SF
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 188 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 168 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jake Bauers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Bryce Eldridge — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.3*Challenge 4: Cooper Pratt — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.5*Challenge 6: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.6*Challenge 7: Christian Yelich — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Heliot Ramos vs Thomas Pannone
  2. 2+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Rafael Devers vs Thomas Pannone
  3. 3-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Daniel Susac vs Chad Patrick

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

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jake Bauers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Cooper Pratt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Christian Yelich — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.

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