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. He got 139 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
- 1-0.19▼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), not our error.