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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-26

MIA @ SF

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, MIA
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jakob Marsee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Casey Schmitt vs Max Meyer
  2. 2-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Casey Schmitt vs Calvin Faucher
  3. 3-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Graham Pauley vs Landen Roupp

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

  1. 1Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.