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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

SD @ WSH

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 172 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Ramón Laureano vs Andrew Alvarez
  2. 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Ty France vs Andrew Alvarez
  3. 3-0.19▼9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Curtis Mead vs Mason Miller

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

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.