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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-15

LAA @ AZ

Home plate: Vic Carapazza

“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.6% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, AZ
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 107 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 97 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: Mike Trout — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Tommy Troy vs Walbert Ureña
  2. 2+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Gabriel Moreno vs José Fermin
  3. 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Geraldo Perdomo vs Walbert Ureña

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mike Trout — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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