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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

SD @ PHI

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”

A+
Umpire Grade
98.3% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
even
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 115 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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: Manny Machado — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Alec Bohm vs Walker Buehler
  2. 2-0.09▲3 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Rodolfo Durán vs Cristopher Sánchez

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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