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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14

SEA @ HOU

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, HOU
7
ABS Overturns
of 10 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 176 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: Isaac Paredes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Cam Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: César Salazar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: César Salazar — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Zach Cole — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Dominic Canzone — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: J.P. Crawford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).10
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    César Salazar vs Domingo Gonzalez
  2. 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Josh Naylor vs Mike Burrows
  3. 3+0.21▼1 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Luis Castillo

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

10 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Isaac Paredes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Cam Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5César Salazar — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6César Salazar — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Zach Cole — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Jose Altuve — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  10. 10J.P. Crawford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.