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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-27

HOU @ TEX

Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, TEX
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Evan Carter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Osuna — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Christian Walker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Evan Carter vs Mike Burrows
  2. 2-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Cam Smith vs Jacob deGrom
  3. 3-0.10▼5 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Alejandro Osuna vs Mike Burrows

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alejandro Osuna — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Christian Walker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.