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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

COL @ CHC

Home plate: Willie Traynor

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.3% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, CHC
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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: Alex Bregman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nico Hoerner — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Michael Busch vs Ryan Feltner
  2. 2-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Ryan Feltner
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Jake McCarthy vs Edward Cabrera

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Nico Hoerner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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