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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

PIT @ TEX

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, PIT
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

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

Challenge 1: Oneil Cruz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Evan Carter — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Gregory Soto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Braxton Ashcraft
  2. 2-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Evan Carter vs Braxton Ashcraft
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Oneil Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Evan Carter — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Gregory Soto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 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.