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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-01

KC @ CIN

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.1% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Isbel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Nick Loftin vs Brandon Leibrandt
  2. 2+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Spencer Steer vs Luinder Avila
  3. 3+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Lane Thomas vs Brandon Leibrandt

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Isbel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.