Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-17
CLE @ MIL
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
89.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CLE
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 130 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+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
David Fry vs Brandon Sproat - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Travis Bazzana vs Brandon Sproat - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Daniel Schneemann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.