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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-29

BOS @ NYY

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.4% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Nick Sogard — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Ben Rice — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Andruw Monasterio vs Justin Topa
  2. 2-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Nick Sogard vs Ryan Yarbrough
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Adley Rutschman vs Ryan Yarbrough

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Ben Rice — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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