Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-28
ATL @ BOS
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, ATL
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Andruw Monasterio vs Chris Sale - 2+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Carlos Narváez vs Chris Sale - 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Sandy León vs Payton Tolle
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Isiah Kiner-Falefa — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Isiah Kiner-Falefa — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.