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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-12

COL @ AZ

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, AZ
7
ABS Overturns
of 10 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 175 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: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Willi Castro — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Lars Nootbaar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9Challenge 10: Willi Castro — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).10
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Tim Tawa vs Ryan Feltner
  2. 2+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Connor Norby vs Gerardo Carrillo
  3. 3+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Willi Castro vs Merrill Kelly

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

10 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Willi Castro — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Lars Nootbaar — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  10. 10Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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