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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-27

NYY @ KC

Home plate: Tripp Gibson

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Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, KC
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Noah Cameron
  2. 2-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Trent Grisham vs Mason Black
  3. 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball
    José Caballero vs Noah Cameron

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.