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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-24

WSH @ CWS

Home plate: Will Little

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.6% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CWS
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Chase Meidroth — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Colson Montgomery — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Drew Millas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Drew Millas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Colson Montgomery — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Luisangel Acuña vs Riley Cornelio
  2. 2+0.19▼7 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Luisangel Acuña vs Riley Cornelio
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami 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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Chase Meidroth — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Colson Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Colson Montgomery — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.