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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-26

TOR @ BOS

Home plate: Quinn Wolcott

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, BOS
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jarren Duran — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲3 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Davis Schneider vs Ranger Suarez
  2. 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Ranger Suarez
  3. 3-0.10▼3 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Wilyer Abreu vs Kevin Gausman

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Jarren Duran — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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