SEA @ CWS
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drew Romo vs Logan Gilbert - 2-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
Randy Arozarena vs Seranthony Domínguez - 3-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Miguel Vargas vs Logan Gilbert
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.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Connor Joe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Rob Refsnyder — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.