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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-07

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Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.7% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, MIN
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Matt Wallner — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Kevin McGonigle vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Byron Buxton vs Tarik Skubal
  3. 3-0.21▲9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Justin Topa

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

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Matt Wallner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.