MIL @ MIN
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 108 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+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Sal Frelick vs Connor Prielipp - 2-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
William Contreras vs Connor Prielipp - 3+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Gary Sánchez vs Eric Orze
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Tristan Gray — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.