Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29
COL @ MIA
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIA
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Agustín Ramírez vs Antonio Senzatela - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jakob Marsee vs Jose Quintana - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jake McCarthy vs Max Meyer
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Jose Quintana — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.