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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23

SEA @ PIT

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, PIT
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Spencer Horwitz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Marcell Ozuna — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Bryan Reynolds vs George Kirby
  2. 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    J.P. Crawford vs Mason Montgomery
  3. 3+0.10▼8 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Endy Rodríguez vs Eduard Bazardo

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. 1Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Spencer Horwitz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ryan O'Hearn — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Marcell Ozuna — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.