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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
90.4% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIL
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. He got 170 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jake Bauers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Bryce Eldridge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Cooper Pratt — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Christian Yelich — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Heliot Ramos vs Thomas Pannone
  2. 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Daniel Susac vs Chad Patrick
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Drew Gilbert vs Andrew Vaughn

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 strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jake Bauers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Bryce Eldridge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Cooper Pratt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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