ATH @ NYM
Home plate: John Libka
“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 130 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+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Nick Kurtz vs Clay Holmes - 2-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Carlos Cortes vs Clay Holmes - 3-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jacob Wilson vs Clay Holmes
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carlos Cortes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.