Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-12
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, KC
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Ranger Suarez - 2-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Nick Sogard vs Randy Dobnak - 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jarren Duran vs Randy Dobnak
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.