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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-04

MIL @ CIN

Home plate: James Jean

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, CIN
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 202 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 190 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luis Lara — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Cooper Pratt — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Cooper Pratt vs Julian Garcia
  2. 2-0.39▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Matt McLain vs Aaron Ashby
  3. 3-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    David Hamilton vs Rhett Lowder

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Luis Lara — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Cooper Pratt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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