BAL @ NYM
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 139 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
- 1-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Jeremiah Jackson vs Jack Weisenburger - 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Carson Benge vs Chris Bassitt - 3-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jared Young vs Chris Bassitt
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carson Benge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.