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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-19

SF @ WSH

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, SF
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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: James Wood — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Matt Chapman vs Miles Mikolas
  2. 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jung Hoo Lee vs Miles Mikolas
  3. 3+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Willy Adames vs PJ Poulin

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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