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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-07

BAL @ MIA

Home plate: Willie Traynor

The black wasn't in play tonight.

C
Umpire Grade
89.5% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, BAL
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Coby Mayo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Joe Mack — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.399 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Coby Mayo vs Calvin Faucher
  2. 2-0.218 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Taylor Ward vs Josh Ekness
  3. 3+0.203 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Javier Sanoja vs Cade Povich

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Coby Mayo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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