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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-06

CWS @ LAA

Home plate: Andy Fletcher

“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Zach Neto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Sebastián Rivero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Jarred Kelenic vs Walbert Ureña
  2. 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Andrew Benintendi vs Brent Suter
  3. 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Vaughn Grissom vs Noah Schultz

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Zach Neto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Sebastián Rivero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.