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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-11

NYY @ TB

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Taylor Walls — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▼3 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Taylor Walls vs Max Fried
  2. 2-0.21▲5 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Ben Rice vs Nick Martinez
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.