COL @ MIN
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Victor Caratini vs Michael Lorenzen - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Tyler Freeman vs Kody Funderburk - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Troy Johnston vs Mike Paredes
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tristan Gray — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.