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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-06

AZ @ HOU

Home plate: Edwin Jimenez

Corner-to-corner and then some.

C
Umpire Grade
89.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, HOU
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: James McCann — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ildemaro Vargas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: James McCann — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.696 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Christian Walker vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  2. 2+0.398 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Gabriel Moreno vs Miguel Ullola
  3. 3+0.237 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Cam Smith vs Juan Morillo

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

  1. 1James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ildemaro Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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