Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-23
LAD @ MIL
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIL
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 208 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 191 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
- 1-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jake Bauers vs Roki Sasaki - 2-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Christian Yelich vs Alex Vesia - 3-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Will Smith vs DL Hall
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Teoscar Hernández — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.