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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

CWS @ DET

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”

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Umpire Grade
96.7% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Troy Melton — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Jake Rogers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Sam Antonacci vs Troy Melton
  2. 2+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Jacob Gonzalez vs Troy Melton
  3. 3-0.10▼7 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Spencer Torkelson vs Trevor Richards

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

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

  1. 1Troy Melton — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Sam Antonacci — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.