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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

KC @ MIN

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, KC
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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 Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Bobby Witt Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Isaac Collins vs Joe Ryan
  2. 2-0.10▼5 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Victor Caratini vs Luinder Avila
  3. 3+0.10▲6 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Joe Ryan

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

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

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.