Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-21
WSH @ TB
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
92.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, WSH
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 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
James Wood vs Nick Martinez - 2-0.30▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Curtis Mead vs Nick Martinez - 3-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
José Tena vs Kevin Kelly
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.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3José Tena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.