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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-24

CLE @ CWS

Home plate: Tripp Gibson

“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CLE
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 194 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 188 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: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Chase Meidroth — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Rhys Hoskins vs Erick Fedde
  2. 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Miguel Vargas vs Tanner Bibee
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Rhys Hoskins vs Erick Fedde

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. 1Miguel Vargas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Chase Meidroth — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.