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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-06

ATL @ LAA

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B-
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, LAA
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 112 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 103 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: Matt Olson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jorge Soler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Drake Baldwin vs José Soriano
  2. 2+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs José Soriano
  3. 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Bryce Teodosio vs Chris Sale

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Matt Olson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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