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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-22

CWS @ TEX

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 142 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: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Ezequiel Duran vs Grant Taylor
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Edgar Quero vs Cal Quantrill
  3. 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Cam Cauley vs Anthony Kay

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Sam Antonacci — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Wyatt Langford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Justin Foscue — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Justin Foscue — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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