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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-31

ATH @ ATL

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, ATL
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brent Rooker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Nick Kurtz vs Martín Pérez
  2. 2-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Drake Baldwin vs Aaron Civale
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Drake Baldwin vs Aaron Civale

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. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brent Rooker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.