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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-16

NYY @ TOR

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TOR
9
ABS Overturns
of 11 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt 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: Trent Grisham — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: George Lombard Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Luis García Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Daz Cameron — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: Brett Bateman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).10Challenge 11: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).11
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Luis García Jr. vs Dylan Cease
  2. 2+0.20▼9 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Alejandro Kirk vs David Bednar
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Luis García Jr. vs Dylan Cease

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

11 pitches went to the robots · 9 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2George Lombard Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Luis García Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Daz Cameron — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  10. 10Brett Bateman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  11. 11Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 11 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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