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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-21

PIT @ TEX

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.9% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, TEX
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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: Marcell Ozuna — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jake Burger — 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+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Corey Seager vs Carmen Mlodzinski
  2. 2+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Wyatt Langford vs Carmen Mlodzinski
  3. 3-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Brandon Nimmo vs Evan Sisk

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. 1Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jake Burger — 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.