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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-04

CLE @ KC

Home plate: Vic Carapazza

“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Bobby Witt Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Daniel Schneemann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Isaac Collins vs Peyton Pallette
  2. 2+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Bobby Witt Jr. vs Tanner Bibee
  3. 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Maikel Garcia vs Tanner Bibee

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Daniel Schneemann — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Isaac Collins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.