Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TEX
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 130 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+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Andrew McCutchen vs Kyle Freeland - 2-0.69▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Kyle Karros vs Jack Leiter - 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Justin Foscue vs Kyle Freeland
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Karros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Tyler Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Danny Jansen — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.