Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01
WSH @ PHI
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PHI
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
CJ Abrams vs Cristopher Sánchez - 2+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Justin Crawford vs Clayton Beeter - 3-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
CJ Abrams vs Cristopher Sánchez
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.
- 1Cristopher Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.