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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03

TOR @ CWS

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, TOR
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Addison Barger vs Sean Burke
  2. 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Alejandro Kirk vs Sean Burke
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    George Springer vs Jordan Leasure

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.

  1. 1Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.