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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-30

HOU @ BAL

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, HOU
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 177 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Brandon Young
  2. 2+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Braden Shewmake vs Brandon Young
  3. 3+0.19▲7 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Braden Shewmake vs Keegan Akin

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.