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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-12

BAL @ MIN

Home plate: Tyler Jones

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, MIN
6
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Leody Taveras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Royce Lewis vs Cam Sanders
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Christian Franklin vs Zebby Matthews
  3. 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Christian Franklin vs Jeff Hoffman

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

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Leody Taveras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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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