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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

MIN @ WSH

Home plate: Mark Wegner

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, MIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Josh Bell vs Cade Cavalli
  2. 2-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Royce Lewis vs Orlando Ribalta
  3. 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Nasim Nuñez vs Taj Bradley

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.