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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-27

CLE @ SEA

Home plate: Will Little

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CLE
0
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Bo Naylor — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Bo Naylor — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Leo Rivas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Cal Raleigh vs Peyton Pallette
  2. 2-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Leo Rivas vs Gavin Williams
  3. 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    CJ Kayfus vs George Kirby

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Bo Naylor — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Bo Naylor — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Leo Rivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.