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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

AZ @ SD

Home plate: Will Little

“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SD
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Tommy Troy vs Yuki Matsui
  2. 2+0.09▼4 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Jake Cronenworth vs Merrill Kelly
  3. 3-0.09▼8 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Luis Campusano vs Kevin Ginkel

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.