Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-16
LAD @ CIN
Home plate: James Jean
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
91.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how James Jean called the 191 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 175 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs Blake Snell - 2+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Kyle Tucker vs Andrew Abbott - 3+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Alex Freeland vs Graham Ashcraft
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dane Myers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Enrique Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.