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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

BAL @ CWS

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 197 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 187 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: Gunnar Henderson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Coby Mayo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Reese McGuire — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Reese McGuire — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Tristan Peters vs Kyle Bradish
  2. 2-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Miguel Vargas vs Kyle Bradish
  3. 3+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Gunnar Henderson vs Sean Burke

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Coby Mayo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Reese McGuire — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Reese McGuire — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.