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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-11

BAL @ TOR

Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

D
Umpire Grade
87.8% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, TOR
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Alejandro Kirk vs Chris Bassitt
  2. 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Nathan Lukes vs Chris Bassitt
  3. 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    George Springer vs Chris Bassitt

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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