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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-11

CWS @ STL

Home plate: Edwin Jimenez

“Borderline went to the battery all night.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, STL
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 149 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Leo Bernal — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.2*Challenge 3: Leo Bernal — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Joshua Báez vs Trevor Richards
  2. 2-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Colson Montgomery vs Matthew Liberatore
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Iván Herrera vs Anthony Kay

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.

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