ATL @ SD
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
Jackson Merrill vs Dylan Dodd - 2+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Gavin Sheets vs Grant Holmes - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drake Baldwin vs Michael King
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Mike Yastrzemski — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.