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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-02

DET @ TB

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, DET
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Victor Mesa Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Zach McKinstry — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Zack Short vs Bryan Baker
  2. 2+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Spencer Torkelson vs Casey Legumina
  3. 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Jonathan Aranda vs Jack Flaherty

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.

  1. 1Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Zach McKinstry — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.