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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

CLE @ HOU

Home plate: Vic Carapazza

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.7% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Rhys Hoskins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Kahlil Watson vs Spencer Arrighetti
  2. 2+0.09▲6 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Rhys Hoskins vs Spencer Arrighetti
  3. 3-0.09▼8 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Jake Meyers vs Joey Cantillo

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

  1. 1Rhys Hoskins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jose Altuve — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.