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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-14

NYM @ LAD

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, NYM
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Luis Robert Jr. — 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
    Will Smith vs Nolan McLean
  2. 2+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Marcus Semien vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  3. 3+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Will Smith vs Nolan McLean

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. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Luis Robert Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.