CIN @ MIA
Home plate: John Libka
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Leo Jiménez vs Brandon Williamson - 2-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
Xavier Edwards vs Brock Burke - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Sal Stewart vs Janson Junk
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.