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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-27

HOU @ DET

Home plate: Will Little

“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”

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Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, HOU
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jahmai Jones — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Colt Keith vs Kai-Wei Teng
  2. 2+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Christian Walker vs Framber Valdez
  3. 3-0.09▼3 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Kerry Carpenter vs Kai-Wei Teng

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jahmai Jones — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.