NYY @ TB
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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
- 1-0.23▼3 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged
Taylor Walls vs Max Fried - 2-0.21▲5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ben Rice vs Nick Martinez - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Trent Grisham vs Nick Martinez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.