Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-11
SEA @ HOU
Home plate: Dillon Wilson
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, HOU
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Dillon Wilson called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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
- 1-0.13▼2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Zach Cole vs George Kirby - 2+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Brice Matthews vs Nick Davila - 3+0.13▲7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Peter Lambert
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.