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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-04

TOR @ SEA

Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Colt Emerson vs Braydon Fisher
  2. 2-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    J.P. Crawford vs Shane Bieber
  3. 3+0.10▼2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Josh Naylor vs Shane Bieber

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Andrés Giménez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.