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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-07

KC @ MIN

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”

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Umpire Grade
89.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, KC
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Bobby Witt Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Maikel Garcia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Austin Martin vs Noah Cameron
  2. 2-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Starling Marte vs Connor Prielipp
  3. 3+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Orlando Arcia vs Noah Cameron

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Luke Keaschall — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  8. 8Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.