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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-18

PIT @ CLE

Home plate: Jim Wolf

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CLE
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Esmerlyn Valdez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Rafael Flores Jr. vs Franco Aleman
  2. 2-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Jared Triolo vs Logan Allen
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Travis Bazzana vs Mason Montgomery

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. 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.