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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-24

MIN @ BOS

Home plate: Will Little

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A+
Umpire Grade
98.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: James Outman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Willson Contreras vs Bailey Ober
  2. 2-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Wilyer Abreu vs Taylor Rogers
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Brooks Lee vs Sonny Gray

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. 1James Outman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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