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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-27

LAA @ CWS

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

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A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, LAA
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Bryce Teodosio vs Anthony Kay
  2. 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Jorge Soler vs Anthony Kay
  3. 3-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Bryce Teodosio vs Anthony Kay

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Travis d'Arnaud — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Travis d'Arnaud — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Travis d'Arnaud — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.