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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-05

BOS @ BAL

Home plate: Ramon De Jesus

An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.

A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, BAL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Nick Sogard — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Isiah Kiner-Falefa — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.232 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Christian Encarnacion-Strand vs Sonny Gray
  2. 2-0.203 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Wilyer Abreu vs Chris Bassitt
  3. 3-0.191 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged
    Nick Sogard vs Chris Bassitt

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

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

  1. 1Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Isiah Kiner-Falefa — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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