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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-15

COL @ HOU

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

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Umpire Grade
88.2% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, HOU
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Carlos Correa — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jordan Beck — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Edouard Julien — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Carlos Correa vs Jose Quintana
  2. 2+0.30▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Tovar vs Spencer Arrighetti
  3. 3+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Troy Johnston vs Spencer Arrighetti

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Carlos Correa — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Jordan Beck — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Edouard Julien — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.