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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-03

TB @ HOU

Home plate: Andy Fletcher

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, HOU
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 106 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 101 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: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Christian Walker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Cam Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Christian Walker vs Bryan Baker
  2. 2+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Christian Walker vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3+0.09▼4 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Isaac Paredes vs Nick Martinez

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Christian Walker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Cam Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.