COL @ CWS
Home plate: Shane Livensparger
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Shane Livensparger called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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 strike called ball
Jake McCarthy vs Bryan Hudson - 2-0.10▲2 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cole Carrigg vs Noah Schultz - 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Randal Grichuk vs Jose Quintana
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Connor Norby — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.