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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22

NYY @ DET

Home plate: Jim Wolf

“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, DET
4
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 130 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: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: James Outman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Anthony Volpe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Colt Keith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Amed Rosario vs Will Vest
  2. 2-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Gerrit Cole
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4James Outman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Anthony Volpe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Colt Keith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.