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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-17

DET @ LAA

Home plate: Will Little

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, DET
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Will Little called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Zach Neto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jorge Soler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Hao-Yu Lee vs Ryan Zeferjahn
  2. 2+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Matt Vierling vs Reid Detmers
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Zach McKinstry vs Sam Bachman

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.