Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-27
TOR @ WSH
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TOR
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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
- 1-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike
James Wood vs Tyler Rogers - 2-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Luis García Jr. vs Louis Varland - 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
CJ Abrams vs Max Scherzer
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Luis García Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.