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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

CLE @ TEX

Home plate: Louie Krupa

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
1.8
Run Favor
runs, TEX
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Louie Krupa called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Wyatt Langford vs Tanner Bibee
  2. 2-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Travis Bazzana vs Jack Leiter
  3. 3+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Brandon Nimmo vs Tanner Bibee

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.