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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-21

WSH @ TB

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, WSH
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: José Tena — 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+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    James Wood vs Nick Martinez
  2. 2-0.30▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Curtis Mead vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Junior Caminero vs Andrew Alvarez

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. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3José Tena — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.