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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-28

ATL @ SF

Home plate: Willie Traynor

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

A+
Umpire Grade
98.3% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SF
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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: Joey Bart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Eric Haase — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Rafael Devers vs Chris Sale
  2. 2+0.10▼6 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Willy Adames vs Chris Sale

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

  1. 1Joey Bart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.