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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

PIT @ PHI

Home plate: Andy Fletcher

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, PHI
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Justin Crawford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Esmerlyn Valdez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Derek Hill vs Yohan Ramírez
  2. 2+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Schwarber vs Braxton Ashcraft
  3. 3-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Endy Rodríguez vs Tim Mayza

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Justin Crawford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.