PHI @ MIA
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Esteury Ruiz vs Jesús Luzardo - 2-0.21▼7 · 3-0 ball called strike
Liam Hicks vs Seth Johnson - 3+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
J.T. Realmuto vs Ryan Gusto
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brian Navarreto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Kyle Stowers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.