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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-29

BOS @ NYY

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

D
Umpire Grade
87.9% accurate
0.9
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 123 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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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 ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Ben Rice — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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+0.69▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Austin Wells vs Garrett Whitlock
  2. 2+0.28▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Ben Rice vs Jovani Morán
  3. 3-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Ben Rice vs Jovani Morán

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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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