ATH @ ATL
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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
- 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Luis Severino - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Michael Harris II vs Luis Severino - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dominic Smith vs Luis Medina
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.
- 1Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.