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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-27

LAD @ SD

Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SD
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Freddie Freeman vs Randy Vásquez
  2. 2+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Samad Taylor vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  3. 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Will Wagner vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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

  1. 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.