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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-12

TEX @ LAA

Home plate: Tripp Gibson

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TEX
6
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Wade Meckler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Vaughn Grissom — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Elias Díaz vs Blake Weiman
  2. 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Nolan Schanuel vs Cal Quantrill
  3. 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Moisés Ballesteros vs Robby Ahlstrom

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Wade Meckler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Vaughn Grissom — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  8. 8Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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