SF @ CLE
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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 ball called strike
José Ramírez vs Matt Wilkinson - 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Angel Genao vs Adrian Houser - 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jonah Cox vs Erik Sabrowski
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nathaniel Lowe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.