NYY @ LAA
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 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Austin Wells vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Zach Neto vs Gerrit Cole - 3-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Gerrit Cole
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.