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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22

ATL @ SD

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, ATL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

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

Challenge 1: Rodolfo Durán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Manny Machado — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Mike Yastrzemski — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Jackson Merrill vs Dylan Dodd
  2. 2-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Xander Bogaerts vs Grant Holmes
  3. 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Gavin Sheets vs Grant Holmes

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 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.