Pitcher Downgraded.. Yet Downgrade Doesn't Happen

[striker2550]

@RandySteinman I also have had this happen, multiple times.

[RandySteinman]

And it just happened again. '98 Braves vs. '24 Dodgers.
Atlanta’s Denny Neagle (B-YZ) strikes out Shohei Ohtani to lead off the bottom of the 8th.
Gets the Grade Reduction alert… yet Neagle remains a B.
Weird.

[TSBL]

I have had that a lot I actually thought the noise was signaling that “after the next batter” he would be reduced like a warning. so i think it happens a lot

[RandySteinman]

@TSBL Oh, so maybe I’m simply misunderstanding this. I assumed the grade reduction had already taken place.

[APBA GO Jeremy]

We’re going to take another look at the timing and how it’s triggered on Monday+

Thanks for letting us know.

[TSBL]

seems grade reduction for optional pitching rule works fine but for fatigue there is a one batter delay. so just fatigue i think

[ncord]

I actually had a couple of incidents recently where the pitcher reduction (assuming fatigue) happened two or three batters before he reached the number of batters faced threshold. He didn’t give up five earned runs in a three minute span either. He gave up a lot of baserunners, so I was wondering if that accelerates the pitcher fatigue threshold?

[TSBL]

@ncord the fatigue is loosely tied to the fatigue number on the card but not exact. a die is rolled before the game (you don’t see it) and a number is added or subtracted from the fatigue number. so if pitcher has a 28 fatigue he may reduce at say 26 or 31 batters. maybe someone can re post the rule

[TSBL]

fatigue grade reduction still has one batter delay from the 'chime" on solitaire

[TSBL]

sorry meant to ad that i like it. kind of early warning pitcher getting gassed.