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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-29

KC @ MIN

Home plate: Tripp Gibson

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Jac Caglianone — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Trevor Larnach — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Isaac Collins — 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: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jac Caglianone vs Joe Ryan
  2. 2+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Salvador Perez vs Kendry Rojas
  3. 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Trevor Larnach vs Randy Dobnak

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Jac Caglianone — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Trevor Larnach — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Isaac Collins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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