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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-29

NYY @ CWS

Home plate: Jim Wolf

“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 173 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: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jasson Domínguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Braden Montgomery — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: José Caballero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Davis Martin
  2. 2+0.21▼11 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Andrew Benintendi vs Camilo Doval
  3. 3+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Trent Grisham vs Davis Martin

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Jasson Domínguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Braden Montgomery — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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