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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

ATL @ LAA

Home plate: Vic Carapazza

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, LAA
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Mauricio Dubón — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Yoán Moncada vs Grant Holmes
  2. 2-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Ozzie Albies vs Ryan Zeferjahn
  3. 3-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Yoán Moncada vs José Suarez

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Mauricio Dubón — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.