Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-17
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TB
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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
- 1-0.23▲1 · 0-2 ball called strike
Henry Bolte vs Drew Rasmussen - 2+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Junior Caminero vs Jeffrey Springs - 3-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan Vilade vs Jeffrey Springs
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jake Fraley — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.