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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

LAD @ WSH

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“Borderline went to the battery all night.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, WSH
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 181 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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: Andy Pages — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Andy Pages vs Clayton Beeter
  2. 2+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Teoscar Hernández vs Foster Griffin
  3. 3-0.20▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Shohei Ohtani vs Foster Griffin

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.