Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-13
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Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CLE
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 194 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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
- 1-0.19▼9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Alec Burleson vs Cade Smith - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Rhys Hoskins vs Matthew Liberatore - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Daniel Schneemann vs Matthew Liberatore
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Thomas Saggese — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.