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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-17

KC @ STL

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“One of those nights the challenge system was invented for.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, KC
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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: Maikel Garcia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Lane Thomas vs Justin Bruihl
  2. 2-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    José Fermín vs Daniel Lynch IV
  3. 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Maikel Garcia vs Andre Pallante

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

  1. 1Maikel Garcia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.