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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-07

BAL @ TOR

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

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

B
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, TOR
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gunnar Henderson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲1 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Adley Rutschman vs Kevin Gausman
  2. 2+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Pete Alonso vs Tyler Rogers
  3. 3+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Kazuma Okamoto vs Shane Baz

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Colton Cowser — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Gunnar Henderson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.