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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-01

ATH @ ATL

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, ATL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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

Challenge 1: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Michael Harris II vs Luis Severino
  2. 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Luis Severino
  3. 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Luis Severino

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.