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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-06

SD @ SF

Home plate: Tripp Gibson

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 123 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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: Ramón Laureano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Jackson Merrill vs Adrian Houser
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Jackson Merrill vs Adrian Houser
  3. 3-0.10▼6 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Patrick Bailey vs Matt Waldron

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ramón Laureano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.