Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08
COL @ PHI
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, PHI
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 198 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 183 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kyle Schwarber vs Chase Dollander - 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Justin Crawford vs Chase Dollander - 3+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Bryson Stott vs Jaden Hill
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.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.