Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
Umpire Grade
88.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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
- 1-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Amed Rosario vs Will Vest - 2-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Riley Greene vs Gerrit Cole - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Zach McKinstry vs Paul Blackburn
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4James Outman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Anthony Volpe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.