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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-06

LAD @ TOR

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.5% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, TOR
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jesús Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Andrés Giménez vs Justin Wrobleski
  2. 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Hyeseong Kim vs Josh Fleming
  3. 3+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Daulton Varsho vs Justin Wrobleski

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.