Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-08
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
Umpire Grade
88.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CWS
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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+0.69▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Miguel Vargas vs Wilber Dotel - 2-0.28▼1 · 1-2 ball called strike
Munetaka Murakami vs Bubba Chandler - 3+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Konnor Griffin vs José Urquidy
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.