LAD @ HOU
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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
- 1-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Miguel Rojas vs Bryan King - 2-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Shohei Ohtani - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jose Altuve vs Shohei Ohtani
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.