MIA @ PIT
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Bryan Reynolds vs Max Meyer - 2-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Spencer Horwitz vs Pete Fairbanks - 3-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jakob Marsee 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Spencer Horwitz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.