BOS @ NYM
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Tyrone Taylor vs Payton Tolle - 2+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carson Benge vs Payton Tolle - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Eric Wagaman vs Payton Tolle
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Romy Gonzalez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.