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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

PHI @ COL

Home plate: Andy Fletcher

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, COL
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 103 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 Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Rafael Marchán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Rafael Marchán — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Willi Castro vs Taijuan Walker
  2. 2-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Kyle Schwarber vs Brennan Bernardino
  3. 3+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Hunter Goodman vs Taijuan Walker

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Rafael Marchán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.