SD @ SF
Home plate: Stu Scheurwater
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 189 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 174 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.30▼9 · 3-1 strike called ball
Rafael Devers vs Mason Miller - 2+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Osleivis Basabe vs Bradgley Rodriguez - 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drew Gilbert vs Bradgley Rodriguez
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andrew Knizner — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.