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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-26

CHC @ PIT

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CHC
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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: Jhostynxon Garcia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Gonzales — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Marcell Ozuna vs Ryan Rolison
  2. 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Ian Happ vs Brandan Bidois
  3. 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jared Triolo vs Hoby Milner

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jhostynxon Garcia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Gonzales — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.