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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-19

DET @ CWS

Home plate: Mark Wegner

“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”

D
Umpire Grade
85.2% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, DET
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Braden Montgomery — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Spencer Torkelson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Kyle Teel vs Jackson Jobe
  2. 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Riley Greene vs Noah Schultz
  3. 3+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Hao-Yu Lee vs Noah Schultz

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

  1. 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Braden Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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