Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-26
AZ @ LAD
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, AZ
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Zac Gallen - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Alek Thomas vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 3+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Jordan Lawlar vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Corbin Carroll — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.