Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10
PHI @ TOR
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TOR
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 181 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
George Springer vs Jesús Luzardo - 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Myles Straw vs Chase Shugart - 3-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Myles Straw vs José Alvarado
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.