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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-17

CLE @ MIL

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“Corner-to-corner and then some.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CLE
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Travis Bazzana — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Daniel Schneemann — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    David Fry vs Brandon Sproat
  2. 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Travis Bazzana vs Brandon Sproat
  3. 3-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Garrett Mitchell vs Daniel Espino

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Daniel Schneemann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.