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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-19

CIN @ PHI

Home plate: Will Little

“This one went to video review more than most.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.5% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, PHI
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 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 148 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Adolis García — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Adolis García vs Chase Burns
  2. 2+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Trea Turner vs Chase Burns
  3. 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Rafael Marchán vs Sam Moll

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Adolis García — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.