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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-04

MIL @ KC

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, MIL
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 189 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: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Lane Thomas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Bobby Witt Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    William Contreras vs Daniel Lynch IV
  2. 2-0.23▼5 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Maikel Garcia vs Chad Patrick
  3. 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Brandon Lockridge vs John Schreiber

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Lane Thomas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.