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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29

CLE @ SEA

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.4% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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: Gabriel Arias — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Cal Raleigh — 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. 1-0.69▼2 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Leo Rivas vs Slade Cecconi
  2. 2-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Leo Rivas vs Slade Cecconi
  3. 3+0.10▼5 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Randy Arozarena vs Slade Cecconi

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gabriel Arias — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Cal Raleigh — 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.