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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-02

CWS @ CLE

Home plate: Vic Carapazza

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CLE
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kyle Teel — 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+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Travis Bazzana vs Sean Newcomb
  2. 2-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Chase Meidroth vs Slade Cecconi
  3. 3-0.13▼2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Gabriel Arias vs Davis Martin

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. 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Kyle Teel — 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.