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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

DET @ CWS

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CWS
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Miguel Vargas — 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. 1-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Munetaka Murakami vs Troy Melton
  2. 2+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Rikuu Nishida vs Troy Melton
  3. 3-0.10▲6 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Erick Fedde

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. 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Sam Antonacci — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.