HOU @ CWS
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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
- 1-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Lucas Spence vs Sean Burke - 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Hunter Brown - 3+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Cam Smith vs Trevor Richards
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sean Burke — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.