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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-22

PIT @ NYY

Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
1.8
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jazz Chisholm Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ben Rice — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Henry Davis — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Cody Bellinger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Spencer Jones vs Mitch Keller
  2. 2-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Ryan O'Hearn vs Gerrit Cole
  3. 3+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Carmen Mlodzinski

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Cody Bellinger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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