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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14

PHI @ BOS

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“You could set a watch by that zone.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, PHI
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Trea Turner — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Andruw Monasterio — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Willson Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Schwarber vs Ryan Watson
  2. 2+0.10▼2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Ceddanne Rafaela vs Jesús Luzardo
  3. 3+0.09▲6 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Brandon Marsh vs Justin Slaten

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Andruw Monasterio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Willson Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.