PIT @ TEX
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs Braxton Ashcraft - 2-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
Evan Carter vs Braxton Ashcraft - 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ezequiel Duran vs Braxton Ashcraft
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Oneil Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Gregory Soto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.