Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-03
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
Run Favor
runs, LAD
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jordan Walker vs Tarik Skubal - 2+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs George Soriano - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Mookie Betts vs Quinn Mathews
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.