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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

SF @ CHC

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CHC
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 174 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: Eric Haase — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Nico Hoerner — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Matt Chapman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Eric Haase — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Michael Busch vs Landen Roupp
  2. 2+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Nico Hoerner vs Keaton Winn
  3. 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Michael Busch vs Landen Roupp

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Nico Hoerner — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Matt Chapman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Eric Haase — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.