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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

BOS @ NYM

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, NYM
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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: Connor Wong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Romy Gonzalez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Connor Wong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ceddanne Rafaela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Tyrone Taylor vs Payton Tolle
  2. 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Tyrone Taylor vs Payton Tolle
  3. 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Luis Torrens vs Brayan Bello

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Romy Gonzalez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.