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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

PIT @ WSH

Home plate: Mark Wegner

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

A-
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, PIT
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bubba Chandler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Esmerlyn Valdez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Konnor Griffin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Nick Gonzales vs Cade Cavalli
  2. 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Dylan Crews vs Mason Montgomery
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Nick Gonzales vs Justin Lawrence

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Bubba Chandler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Konnor Griffin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.