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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-30

CWS @ BAL

Home plate: Mark Wegner

“The zone stretched its legs.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, BAL
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Pete Alonso — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Braden Montgomery — 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+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Kyle Teel vs Trey Gibson
  2. 2-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Tristan Peters vs Josh Walker
  3. 3+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs Albert Suárez

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Braden Montgomery — 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.