Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10
MIN @ DET
Home plate: Will Little
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Will Little called the 194 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 184 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Riley Greene vs Anthony Banda - 2-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
Kevin McGonigle vs Mike Paredes - 3+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Riley Greene vs Taylor Rogers
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.