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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-13

COL @ DET

Home plate: James Jean

“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, DET
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 161 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. 151 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Adael Amador — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.2*Challenge 3: Hao-Yu Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.3*Challenge 4: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Colt Keith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
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. 1-0.69▼2 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Colt Keith vs Gabriel Hughes
  2. 2+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Riley Greene vs Jimmy Herget
  3. 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Kevin McGonigle vs Gabriel Hughes

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

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Adael Amador — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Hao-Yu Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — 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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