CWS @ DET
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Rogers vs Chris Murphy - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Tristan Peters vs Troy Melton - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jacob Gonzalez vs Troy Melton
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Troy Melton — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.