Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-14
LAA @ NYY
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Aaron Judge vs Reid Detmers - 2-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
Vaughn Grissom vs Yerry De los Santos - 3-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Amed Rosario vs Reid Detmers
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.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Oswald Peraza — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.