CHC @ PIT
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“Not the sharpest, and the grade agrees.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 129 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
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Marcell Ozuna vs Ryan Rolison - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Ian Happ vs Brandan Bidois - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jhostynxon Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Nick Gonzales — 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.