HOU @ BAL
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 177 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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· challenged ✓
Cam Smith vs Brandon Young - 2+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Brandon Young - 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Braden Shewmake vs Brandon Young
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.