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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-18

STL @ HOU

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, HOU
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 190 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 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: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Iván Herrera — 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. 1-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike
    José Fermín vs Lance McCullers Jr.
  2. 2-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    JJ Wetherholt vs Colton Gordon
  3. 3-0.28▼7 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Shay Whitcomb vs Gordon Graceffo

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. 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.