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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-18

DET @ LAA

Home plate: Ryan Wills

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.7% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, DET
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 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 126 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 ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Wade Meckler vs Jacob Waguespack
  2. 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Vaughn Grissom vs Tarik Skubal
  3. 3-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Dillon Dingler vs Grayson Rodriguez

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 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 ball: overturned.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Nolan Schanuel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.