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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-09-01

CWS @ HOU

Home plate: Shane Livensparger

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Taylor Trammell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Cam Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Andrew Benintendi vs Tatsuya Imai
  2. 2+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Sean Burke
  3. 3+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Randal Grichuk vs Ronel Blanco

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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