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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-29

DET @ ATL

Home plate: Will Little

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, ATL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Mike Yastrzemski — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Dominic Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Dominic Smith vs Kyle Finnegan
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Kevin McGonigle vs JR Ritchie
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Dillon Dingler vs JR Ritchie

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Mike Yastrzemski — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Dominic Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.