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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

MIL @ COL

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, MIL
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Blas Castaño — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Christian Yelich — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Brice Turang — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Jackson Chourio vs Blas Castaño
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Kyle Karros vs Jacob Misiorowski
  3. 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Tyler Freeman vs Jacob Misiorowski

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Blas Castaño — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Christian Yelich — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Brice Turang — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.