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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-26

COL @ MIN

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Willi Castro — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Trevor Larnach — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Edouard Julien vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Hunter Goodman vs Taj Bradley
  3. 3-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Ezequiel Tovar vs Taj Bradley

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Trevor Larnach — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.