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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

CHC @ CLE

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CHC
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 200 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Nico Hoerner — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼8 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Chase DeLauter vs Jacob Webb
  2. 2+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    José Ramírez vs Shota Imanaga
  3. 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Matt Shaw vs Shawn Armstrong

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Nico Hoerner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.