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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-31

CHC @ STL

Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.5% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, CHC
0
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Michael Busch — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: José Fermín — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Kevin Alcántara — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Nolan Gorman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged
    José Fermín vs Ethan Roberts
  2. 2-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Masyn Winn vs Jordan Wicks
  3. 3-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Alec Burleson vs Trent Thornton

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Michael Busch — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2José Fermín — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Kevin Alcántara — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Nolan Gorman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.