Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-21
CWS @ TEX
Home plate: Will Little
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CWS
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Will Little called the 133 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Ezequiel Duran vs Noah Schultz - 2+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Elias Díaz vs Noah Schultz - 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Justin Foscue vs Noah Schultz
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Wyatt Langford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.