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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10

NYY @ CLE

Home plate: Mark Wegner

“The zone kept its promises.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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: Rhys Hoskins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Trent Grisham — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Stuart Fairchild — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Parker Messick
  2. 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Ryan McMahon vs Codi Heuer
  3. 3+0.13▼9 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Stuart Fairchild vs Ryan Yarbrough

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Rhys Hoskins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Trent Grisham — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Stuart Fairchild — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.