TEX @ TB
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
- 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nicky Lopez vs Bryan Baker - 2-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nicky Lopez vs Bryan Baker - 3+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jake Burger vs Craig Kimbrel
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Nicky Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Nicky Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.