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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-09

CIN @ LAD

Home plate: Louie Krupa

A few he'd want back, and the grade says so.

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CIN
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Louie Krupa called the 149 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: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Banfield — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Will Banfield — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.691 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Elly De La Cruz vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  2. 2+0.304 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Hunter Feduccia vs Rhett Lowder
  3. 3+0.285 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Enrique Hernández vs Julian Garcia

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Will Banfield — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Will Banfield — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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

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