TOR @ CWS
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Addison Barger vs Sean Burke - 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Alejandro Kirk vs Sean Burke - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.