WSH @ MIA
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Keibert Ruiz vs Calvin Faucher - 2-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Heriberto Hernández vs Jackson Kent - 3+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Abimelec Ortiz vs Janson Junk
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brian Navarreto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Esteury Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.