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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-30

CIN @ MIL

Home plate: Mark Ripperger

“The zone kept its promises.”

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Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIL
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Garrett Mitchell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Jackson Chourio vs Rhett Lowder
  2. 2-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Sal Stewart vs Brandon Sproat
  3. 3-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jose Trevino vs Chad Patrick

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

  1. 1Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.