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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-27

MIN @ CWS

Home plate: Jen Pawol

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Jen Pawol 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

Challenge 1: Byron Buxton — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Sam Antonacci vs Connor Prielipp
  2. 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Randal Grichuk vs Connor Prielipp
  3. 3+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Miguel Vargas vs Connor Prielipp

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Byron Buxton — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.