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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

TEX @ COL

Home plate: Jim Wolf

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, TEX
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Kyle Karros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Tyler Freeman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Andrew McCutchen vs Kyle Freeland
  2. 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Justin Foscue vs Kyle Freeland
  3. 3-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Mickey Moniak vs Jack Leiter

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Karros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Tyler Freeman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Danny Jansen — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.