Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30
NYM @ STL
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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
- 1-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike
Nathan Church vs Tobias Myers - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs Clay Holmes - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jorge Polanco vs Kyle Leahy
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.