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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-22

MIN @ BOS

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, BOS
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Jarren Duran vs Connor Prielipp
  2. 2+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Nick Sogard vs Connor Prielipp
  3. 3+0.10▼5 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Andruw Monasterio vs Travis Adams

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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