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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-28

WSH @ CHC

Home plate: Jim Wolf

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

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Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CHC
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Matt Shaw — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alex Bregman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Miles Mikolas
  2. 2+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Matt Shaw vs Miles Mikolas
  3. 3-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Carson Kelly vs Ken Waldichuk

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Matt Shaw — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Alex Bregman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.