TOR @ KC
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 139 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
John Rave vs Max Scherzer - 2+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
Brett Bateman vs Seth Lugo - 3-0.10▼3 · 0-1 ball called strike
Salvador Perez vs Max Scherzer
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.