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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-20

DET @ BOS

Home plate: Will Little

“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, BOS
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Gleyber Torres — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Wilyer Abreu vs Brant Hurter
  2. 2+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Roman Anthony vs Jack Flaherty
  3. 3+0.19▼8 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Caleb Durbin vs Drew Anderson

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. 1Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Gleyber Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.