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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-09

SEA @ CWS

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, SEA
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jarred Kelenic — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Josh Naylor vs Anthony Kay
  2. 2+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Cal Raleigh vs Bryan Hudson
  3. 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Josh Naylor vs Anthony Kay

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jarred Kelenic — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.