Pitcher Downgraded.. Yet Downgrade Doesn't Happen

[RandySteinman]

First off, I LOVE the Pitcher’s Fatigue option and the new alerts telling us when downgrades occur. Great addition to GO.

Had a confusing situation today, though. The 1998 Braves’ Tom Glavine (A-Y) pitching against the 2010 Twins. As the top of the 8th inning ended, I got a notice that Glavine had been downgraded. Which made sense, as he had faced 28 Minnesota hitters… and his BF Fatigue number is 29.

Atlanta batted in the bottom of the 8th. Yet when the top of the 9th began, the screen showed Glavine as still being an A.

I removed him from the game anyway, because it was the right thing to do. But it was an odd thing to have happen. Will send a note to GO Support.

[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?