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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10

ATL @ CWS

Home plate: Chad Whitson

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A+
Umpire Grade
97.3% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, ATL
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Matt Olson vs Sean Newcomb
  2. 2-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Edgar Quero vs James Karinchak
  3. 3-0.09▲7 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Ozzie Albies 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

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

  1. 1Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.