Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
92.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CWS
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 153 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bryson Stott vs Sean Burke - 2-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Colson Montgomery vs Chase Shugart - 3-0.23▼8 · 0-2 ball called strike
Bryson Stott vs Sean Newcomb
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andrew Benintendi — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Bryson Stott — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.