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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14

MIA @ PIT

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.9% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, PIT
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Jakob Marsee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jake Mangum — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Spencer Horwitz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Joe Mack — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Bryan Reynolds vs Max Meyer
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jakob Marsee vs Paul Skenes
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Liam Hicks vs Paul Skenes

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Spencer Horwitz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.